Quotes About Society

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, w

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.

Wal-Mart: The only place on earth you can get a haircut, eye exam, ice cream sandwich, tires for your car, and witness a real life what not to wear episode...

Girls work on their looks but not on their minds because they know boys are stupid, not blind.