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

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

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

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

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

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.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

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.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

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

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

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

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.