Quotes About Society

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

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Socialism is a dead horse.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.