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

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

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.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

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.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

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.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.