The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Society is our extended mind and body.

One of many ways to be useful is to inspire people to forget some rules imposed by society. Important rules are dictated by our hearts.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The mother is the pillar of the home, of society, of the nation, and so of humanity itself.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ,one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Evil draws men together.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First have a definite clear practical ideal - a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve it.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

The minority is sometimes right, the majority always wrong.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Public opinion in this country is everything.

Giving the best to others is giving the best to ourselves. The value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we can contribute to others in our society.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly, bodies but not the madness of people.

Education is a social process, education is growth, education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interest are at stake.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common, except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control, when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade, their hair is auburn.

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society here would be quite civilized.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers, by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

War kills men and men deplore the loss, but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants and so saves societies.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

America's a very traumatized society.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

I had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors and rarely invite them round to dinner.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must above all be a sheep oneself.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

As far as I knew, white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found that as the clergy are or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

It is not best that we should all think alike, it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth, next to humans.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

From hence let fierce contending nations know what dire effects from civil discord flow.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief, a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities, the bright are sometimes poisonous, but I believe never the sweet.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.

I feel bad about my outlook how I feel about people and society and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much, vices almost always too little.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That for me would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces nor slander us behind our backs nor intrude upon our privacy nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth no property and vulgar employment.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts, but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote, and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do, and if they do not they do not.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best stage is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it is.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

All the United States it is a society that is split like to the bottom that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Human society minus God is equal to a forest of brutes.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Freedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree while the other is in distress try whether one side, of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

As in geology, so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

Not only is the self entwined in society, it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

When a nation goes down or a society perishes one condition may always be found, they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

In a capitalist society persons who create capital like Michael Eisner are given the staggering rewards.

Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others they are dragged down by the mass either by ridicule or slander.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are, after all, imperfect instruments working for their fulfillment.

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society.

In many ways when you're a Nobel peace laureate you have an obligation to humankind to society.

The smarter the journalists are the better off society is. [For] to a degree people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher the better the student body.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves as far as is possible in the society of today that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand.

Thanks to my mother not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Inclusive good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

What you get from society give it back to society. That is the primary value to be cherished by everyone.

I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library

It is change continuing change inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is but the world as it will be.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Consideration for others is the basic of a good life a good society.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Our modern society - especially in the West and especially now - reveres youth.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women and there are families.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away; but once a fortune is inherited, it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Politics is for the present but an equation is for eternity.

Land: A part of the earth's surface considered as property. The theory that land is property, subject to private ownership and control, is the foundation of modern society and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Follow your cultural and religious customs in your own home, but do not attempt to impose them on society. Rather than this, love each person as your own brother or sister, not seeing him or her as belonging to another creed, religion or country.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

In the first stage of boyhood he is led from ignorance and 'innocence' into the world of knowledge when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that he has to serve the Guru and obey him without feeling burdened and bound. In the second stage of youth he has to share with society the means and measures for its progress and security, he has to start earning for his livelihood and spending his income with intelligent care, he has also the duty of providing examples to those younger than himself and guide them into socially useful paths. At the same time he must follow the footsteps of elders and learn from them lessons for his own advancement.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society or what is worse looking as if he stifled grief.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party faction and division of society.

Society is our primary concern. The Divine is manifest in society.

In December I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

Everyone seeks to know what good he can derive from other individuals or from society.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately it can propel people toward social emancipation.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

The only part of the conduct of any one for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself his independence is of right absolute. Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign.

It is only when man cultivate humanness that society will shine with radiance and the nation and the world will progress. Humanness can be promoted only through spirituality and not by any other means. Just as a seed can sprout only when it is planted in the soil and watered human values can grow only in a spiritual soil.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

In the society where people are just parts in a larger machine individuals are unable to develop fully.

This place is the Devil or at least his principal residence they call it the University but any other appellation would have suited it much better for study is the last pursuit of the society, the Master eats drinks and sleeps the Fellows drink dispute and pun the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

The most important element of a free society where individual rights are held in the highest esteem is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

A state is not a mere society having a common place established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship.

No one asks himself what good or benefit society derives from him. Start by rendering benefit to society.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness, and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

That's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society, governments the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

During adult-hood along with the earning of wealth and involvement in the improvement of Society attention must be paid to the promotion and preservation of virtues and to the observance of moral codes.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a "type of weevil."

When individuals change society will change. And when society changes the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives, but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

Fill yourself with love. Love should express itself in service to society. You should look upon society this way. We exist for society and society exists for the good of all.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues the most dominating virtues of human society are created strengthened and maintained

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone it takes generations to weave it back together.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.