I think the first duty of society is justice.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

All 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.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

It is right to give every man his due.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.