Society Quotes

"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "If I am a star the people made me a star" "Freedom is the very essence of our democracy" "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans" "The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children." "I think the first duty of society is justice" "Take a good look around and you'll see, everybody trying hard to feel free." "The whole celebrity culture thing—I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it." "Religion is the opium of the masses." "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying" "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live" "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard." "I’m tired of the underdog narrative"