The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

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

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

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

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

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.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

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

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

People love conspiracy theories.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.