Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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.‘

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Faith never makes a confession.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

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

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