Quotes About Society

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

there is but only one form of socioeconomic society whereby all members of its social group hold unmerited equal status...A social collective/socialist or slave society!".

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.