Quotes About Society

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.