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

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.

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

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.

Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

A good wine has many qualities I think. If drunk moderately, it is healthy and good for your heart.

The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.