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Justice and truth are the common ties of society

Let us get on with creating the democratic and pluralistic society that we say we are.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out, there only reach their proper use.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.

One of the advantages of being born in an affluent society is that if one has any intelligence at all, one will realize that having more and more won't solve the problem, and happiness does not lie in possessions, or even relationships: The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

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.

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

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

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 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 master, and man is the servant.

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

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

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

Society's the mother of convention.