A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

There are some loony people in this world!

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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

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

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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.

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

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.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

I am not a fan of books.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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

People love conspiracy theories.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

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

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.