Quotes About Society

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

Currently in the United States, 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock, contributing to massive family breakdown,

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

A society with more justice needs less charity.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities.

Civilization depends on morality.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members…. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

The less government we have, the better—the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.