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

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can’t compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan’s free market enthusiasms.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

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

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

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

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

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

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

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

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

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.