Quotes About Society

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.

If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.

I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

Realism is the trend.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

A religion may be discerned in capitalism--that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

real men cry, real men have feelings.

A few years ago if yu said yu were Green Yu were really seen as Red.

Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.

The key to any progress is to ask the question why? All the time. Why is that child poor? Why was there a war? Why was he killed? Why is he in power? And of course questions can get you into a lot of trouble, because society is trained by those who run it, to accept what goes on. Without questions we won't make any progress at all.

In a woman whose chief capital is her beauty, to be forty is a crime against society.

Society was not a "social pyramid" with the proportion of rich to poor sloping gently from one class to the next. Instead, it was more of a "social arrow"- very fat at the bottom where the mass of men live, and very thing at the top where sit the wealthy elite. Nor was this effect by chance; the data did not remotely fit a bell curve, as one would expect if wealth were distributed randomly. It is a social law, he wrote: something "in the nature of man.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.