The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that...

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men

Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.

All the countries had enough to pay for these enormous protective walls, and nobody thought about war. They only armed themselves 'just in case' – because rich people like to see steel walls around...

I'm not so sure innocence exists anymore.

Public justice is the greatest kind of show, my brother. Drama. Suspense. And best of all education en masse.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

When acting and being as you are now, you are determining the way of being and acting of others.

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is...

We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.