In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack ObamaI would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
Che GuevaraSociety does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl MarxSavages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin FranklinPopular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
Margaret AtwoodJesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.
Pope FrancisI have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.
AuroraModern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John RuskinI know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.
Joe BidenOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
PlatoIt is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace ThackerayAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar WildePeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleThe fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand RussellThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusIf 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. KennedyOnce spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich NietzscheIn the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas CarlyleIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyWe need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.
Bad BunnyIt is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
AristotleThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James BaldwinI think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
Barack ObamaThe present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFree speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Noam ChomskyEven if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.
Greta ThunbergCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawTo cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
Albert CamusThe mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
Hunter S. ThompsonJustice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund BurkeBabylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.
Bob MarleyIn order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador DaliIn today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Kanye WestThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis BaconMy dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.
Joel OsteenYou can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
David HareThe more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
Bob MarleyThe public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
VoltaireThere has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Wayne DyerThe 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 ModiA society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. MenckenThere can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret ThatcherI think America has always been polarized.
Alice WalkerThis City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PlatoThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Noam ChomskyEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEverything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will RogersIn 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.
Karl MarxIt’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Jordan PetersonIf there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles DickensThe ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl MarxIt is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. RooseveltArguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar WildeEverybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James BaldwinI used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.
RihannaI like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob DylanWhen we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson