There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

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.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

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.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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.

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

I think I’ve got wiser.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Africa is on the rise.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I’m trying to make the world a more open place.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

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

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

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

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.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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.

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

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

People like to talk about war.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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.