Society Quotes

"A society that does not recognize the potential within each individual is a society that will stagnate." "The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations" "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force" "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." "In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward" "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." "The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world." "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" "Where there is no Law, there is no Freedom" "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family" "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be"