Quotes About Society

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

My goal is first of all to promote a public debate about where markets serve the public good and where they don't belong. That's my first goal.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.

A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Not all design is for the general good.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

Honestly, what is ageism really, you know? If you take care of yourself and you feel good then that's really all that matters at the end of the day.

A person of "good character" was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.