Society Quotes

"To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." "Our world is fast changing, but our basic ability to reason has remained largely unchanged for millennia." "For a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful" "The family is the first essential cell of human society." "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people." "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be" "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." "Where there is no Law, there is no Freedom" "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world." "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "The more laws, the less justice" "Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." "History is written by the people"