The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

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

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.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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 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.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

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

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

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

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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

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

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.