Quotes About Society

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.