Quotes About Society

The Nation observed, "If you steal $25, you're a thief. If you steal $250,000, you're an embezzler. If you steal $2,500,000, you're a financier.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy.

She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

There were no peasants doffing their hats here; no one was exempt from paying taxes; all men, in fact, were born equal.

In a society governed by Roman law which accords an absolute and indisputable value to private property, they practise mutual assistance and, with a free originality, a certain sharing of possessions. In a society that takes eroticism for granted and where utterly heedless cruelty holds sway in regard to the embryo and the new born child, Christians bear their witness to the chastity of conjugal love and they oppose abortion and the desertion of infants.

If Christians remain faithful to the message of the resurrection and become truly eucharistic people, they are in society like a forest in the middle of cultivated lands – an unlimited reserve of silence, peace and authentic life that makes possible all the good and lasting creations of history.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Caste pride is behind this centuries-old custom. The deep chasm that divides the society is made even deeper by this custom, a conspiracy to trap us in the whirlpool of inferiority.

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.