society
“There has never been a country so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”
“All civilization is from time to time a thin crust over a volcano.”
“To be a leader of men one must turn one’s back on men.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts.”
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman; the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
“History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”
“All people are born equal, all people die in the end and keep nothing of their worldly status.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet.”
“It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by our social order; it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies.”
“Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.”