Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.

Don’t run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.

I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

Making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?