Society Quotes

"The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children." "Throughout history, population size and innovation levels are linked" "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard." "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live" "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" "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Religion is the opium of the masses." "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution" "The whole celebrity culture thing—I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it." "Take a good look around and you'll see, everybody trying hard to feel free." "I think the first duty of society is justice" "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "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" "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose" "Freedom is the very essence of our democracy" "If I am a star the people made me a star" "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."