There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

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.

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

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

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.

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.

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

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

There are some loony people in this world!

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Everybody is entertained to death.

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

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

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

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

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

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

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

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I live in a crazy time.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.