Quotes About Society

The most costly disease is not cancer or coronaries. The most costly disease is boredom - costly for both individual and society.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small, but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great, but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small, because the right is the same for everyone.

Canada is a society, rather than a nation.

Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behaviour that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.

The great hope of society is individual character.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

In the busy haunts of men.

The people are the city.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.