The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I think America has always been polarized.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Some people wonder all their lives if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?