Quotes About Society

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

We live in a primitive time—don't we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

[In a state of nature] No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Homo homini lupus

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

O God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

You are no longer a boy, and one of the first duties which a man owes to his friends and to society is to live within his income.

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

The right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

our youth are told that buying expensive items is normal behavior for affluent people. They are led to believe that the wealthy have a high-consumption lifestyle. They learn that hyperspending is the main reward for becoming affluent in America. Why

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.