The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, I.E., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.