The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power… because it’s obvious that it’s them I’m criticizing, but they can’t show that in front of the cameras. It’s quite funny sometimes.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

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.

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.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.