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Radical transformation of society requires personal and spiritual change first or at least simultaneously

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Society's the mother of convention.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.