The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

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.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.