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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

People like to talk about war.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

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

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.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

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.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

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.

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.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

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

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.