Society Quotes

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

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

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

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

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?