Society and the World

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Savagely is necessary ever}' four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Thou, O my country, hast thy foolish ways, / Too apt to purr at every stranger’s praise!

No absolute is going to make the lion lie dow'n with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

Equations are more important to me because politics is for the present but an equation is something for eternity.

 

Hogmanay, like all festivals, being but a bank from which we can only draw what we put in.

 

Come, my friends. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

 

Honesty pays, but it don’t seem to pay enough to suit a lot of people.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the efforts of every man to get the most he can for his services and that of society disguised under the name of capital to get his services for the least possible return.

Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.