We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

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.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

People like to talk about war.

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

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

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

I think America has always been polarized.

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.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Music is always a commentary on society.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The American people have not become heartless.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.