Quotes About Society

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.