Society Quotes

"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." "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution" "Religion is the opium of the masses." "Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls." "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" "The image is everything" "Suffering is civilization" "Speak a little truth and people lose they minds." "The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved." "This is the new norm" "Socialism doesn't work because people need to be free" "These problems were not created by government action, or government inaction. We created them, and only we can fix them"