Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.
Noam ChomskyThere is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas JeffersonThe finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark TwainLong before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. LewisThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiI never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma BombeckThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovIf art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. KennedyJustice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Blaise PascalAll ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyGood humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Joe BidenThe one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles DickensNo man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham LincolnThe poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice WalkerOur lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. ClarkeIt is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovThat sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Charles DickensWe live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. JohnsonDemocracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
AristotleIf you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Julius CaesarIt isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.
Jordan PetersonAll who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin FranklinMy music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob MarleyThe fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
Narendra ModiThere can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson MandelaAn asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard ShawIf we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Noam ChomskyIf a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeWe’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl SaganI should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Nelson MandelaIndependence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard ShawFor me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma GandhiIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James MadisonMan is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald ReaganWhere there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhat troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt VonnegutThe world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
Benjamin DisraeliAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltIf people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
John KennedyOur modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
Clint EastwoodA lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint EastwoodThe world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar WildeFor Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Alexander PopeOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will RogersThis country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
Kurt VonnegutThe universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Stephen HawkingPart of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim RohnNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltPublic opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon BonaparteFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoWhere an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James MadisonThe basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George WashingtonJudges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon