If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Power works best when it is indirect – never coercing people; instead, getting them to voluntarily align with your interests.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you’re going to say, ‚Where did we come from, what happens next?‘ The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

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.‘

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Syllables govern the world.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

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.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

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.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

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

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.