Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard ShawOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. MenckenThe Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack ObamaIf 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 KrishnamurtiThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore RooseveltMy heart aches for America and its deceived people.
Billy GrahamI live in a crazy time.
Anne FrankIn our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas SowellAlthough I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Bill GatesSociety is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMoney is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.
Robert KiyosakiWhat 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 VonnegutFor every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore RooseveltThe year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
Nikola TeslaThe 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 ModiWe’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
Billy GrahamSongs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.
David BowieI suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar WildeOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
VoltaireBarack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. ColeDissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
Noam ChomskyFree speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
Noam ChomskyChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonProgressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaI believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy GrahamThe ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
David HareAs in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David ThoreauPrinces and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyYou can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
Stephen CoveyExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonDemocracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Bob DylanCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawIn much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil ArmstrongBehind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich NietzscheThe masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.
Jordan PetersonStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonIn every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John RuskinAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Noam ChomskyToo many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy CarterMy music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob MarleyThe mob is the mother of tyrants.
DiogenesYou notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.
Christopher HitchensIt’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Billie EilishNo one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe 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.
Karl MarxSociety can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund BurkeIf we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.
Kanye WestWe live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliThe world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthurIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David Thoreau