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Quotes About Society

If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.
~ Adam Levine
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
~ Mark Twain
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.
~ Pete Hamill
With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
~ Immanuel Kant
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.
~ Thomas Davis
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
~ Leonard Read
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
~ Emma Goldman
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
~ William Butler Yeats
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
~ Joan Baez
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
~ Chris Crass
The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
~ Colman McCarthy
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
~ Victor Hugo
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
~ Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.
~ George W. Bush
Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
~ Stefan Emunds
If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.
~ Vishwas Chavan
Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?
~ Stefan Emunds
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
~ Plutarch
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
~ Murray N. Rothbard