Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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.

Society is at odds with itself.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

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.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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

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

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.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

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

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

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.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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 United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

My music is a luxury.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

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

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

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

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

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.

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.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

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

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

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.

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

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.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.