Quotes About Society

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

Bolshevism?

Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy.

Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.

History without political science has no fruit. Political science without history has no root.

These three conditions of human society are expressed by the rough, the split and the polished stone.

there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source; that a wrong done to one man is a wrong to society and to the world.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

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

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.

there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

The land didn't need laws. But people did.

For decades the social structures that created nuclear families, that kept families whole and together, had eroded, had finally broken down completely. Broken homes made broken homes made broken homes.