Quotes About Society

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Os políticos nunca se atrevem a criticar o povo, que muitas vezes é vil e cobarde e insensato, nunca o censuram nem lhe repreendem a conduta, antes o elogiam invariavelmente, quando pouco costuma ter de elogiável, seja o de que sítio for.

nimelt et eavesdropping, salaja pealtkuulamine, mitte ainult ei ole mõlemas linnas [Cambridge ja Oxford] laialdaselt harrastatud tegevus, vaid oli, on ja jääb parimaks (ehkki algeliseks) vajalike teadmiste kogumise mooduseks, kui ei taheta muutuda autsaideriks, kes midagi ei tea ja kel pole midagi jagada.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, y si no el mundo se detendría. Todo permanecería flotando en una vacilación global y continua.

Somos las civilizadoras, no te cabe duda

De la libertad se puede prescindir. De hecho es lo primero de lo que los ciudadanos con miedo están dispuestos a prescindir. Tanto que a menudo exigen perderla, que se la quiten, no volver a verla ni en pintura, nunca más, y así aclaman a quien va a arrebatársela y después votan por él.

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».

Y si hubiésemos llegado a unos tiempos de locura en los que los hombres tampoco pudiésemos elegir nuestros puntos cardinales?

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

We must demand excellence of ourselves and agitate and advocate justice from the larger society.

Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."40

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem