The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

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.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The French have got taste.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

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

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

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.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Everything popular is wrong.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

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

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.