We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

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

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

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

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

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

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

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

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

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

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.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.