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Quotes About Society

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.
~ Pedro Arrupe
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
~ Herbert Spencer
Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.
~ Bryan Stevenson
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
~ Antonio Gramsci
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
~ Ayn Rand
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
~ Murray Rothbard
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
~ Milton Friedman
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.
~ Erving Goffman
We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
~ Jerry Garcia
Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
~ Robert Kennedy
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
~ Jim Rohn
If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
~ John Adams
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
~ Miriam Makeba
Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote...that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.
~ Samuel Adams
There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
~ Pol Pot
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
~ Dorothy Fields
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~ Pope John Paul II
Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
~ Erving Goffman