Power & Society Sayings

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.

Your voice deserves business and respect.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Each man is good in his sight. It is not for me to judge.

I was told that the President of the United States had sent for me. I was glad to go.

No stable in the world could stink worse than a rich vein of fermenting potato peelings.

The development of the world is the development of the idea of freedom.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is lent us in life: the higher the interest, the more we have to pay.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The greatest scandal of the world is the one we are all guilty of: the fact that we are born.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin; the Communists are a disease of the heart.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.