Society Quotes

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual resp…

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neit…

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth …

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.