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

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

We live in a bewildering world.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

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

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

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

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 live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.