Society quotes and sayings

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.

We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake.Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace. If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present

Being seventy is not a sin.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Don't be humble, you're not that great.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

When there are no more categorizations; when there are no more "niggers", when there are no more "whites", when there`s just "people", you know, when there`s no more "punks" when there`s no more "dirt", that is when everything is gonna be OK

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

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

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.