Quotes About Society

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

We may make progress only by freeing ourselves from the rut of the past, but without this rut an orderly society would hardly be possible in the first place.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.