There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

We live in a bewildering world.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

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

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

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

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.

We were poor, but we smiled.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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.

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

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

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

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.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Who, being loved, is poor?

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

People do not make wars; governments do.