Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute it is a moral evil teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
If we try to engineer outcomes if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate everyone wins except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
I'm interested in that drive that rush to judgment that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do isn't it?
Before I do anything I think well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
People ask me to smile for the camera but somehow it always comes out gloomy.
While you're improvising you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out you know that hey we're having fun.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you or it becomes this incredible potion.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us the control over the world that that can render.
If Christianity is not scientific and Science is not God then there is no invariable law and truth becomes an accident.
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So for me I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about which is really sad.
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad outcasts and being bullied and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Affliction comes to us not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.