Quotes About Society

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.

Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man.

You are an educated man, Old One.' 'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.

There's a saying that when guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns.

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

Such are the amenities of social life, which oft makes a liar of the best of men.

No telling what those men wanted... but in these times there were white men with bloodier hands than any Indian...

Uncommon men are everywhere. So much so that the common man has become uncommon.

Unthinking people often despise politicians, but if we do not have the best people in politics, it is our own fault. Politics is the art of making civilization work.

Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

We're all responsible," he said presently to Laurie. "Law and order is a job for all of us. If we shirk it long enough we will have anarchy, and all we've built will be destroyed. It is like building a beautiful building and then turning a lot of wild animals into it and letting them go. "This is the old war, the war of civilization against the barbarian; of peacefulness, order, and hard work against the heedless, the cruel, the destructive.

Society is not taking revenge. It is simply eliminating someone who refuses to live by the rules.

Where there's no law, all the strength can't be left in the hands of the lawless, so good men use guns, too.

In modern societies, the reproduction of custom is no longer understood to be one of the chief purposes of existence, and the ends of life are not thought to be given; they are thought to be discovered or created. Individuals are not expected to follow the life path of their parents, and the future of the society is not thought to be dictated entirely by its past.

I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return to become useful and hardworking members of society.

civilization?

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!