The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

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.

We live in a bewildering world.

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.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

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

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

I think America has always been polarized.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

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

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.