You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyLook at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
John C. MaxwellPart of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim RohnIn 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 ObamaWherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
VoltaireI claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma GandhiOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
Billy GrahamDuring the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.
Robert KiyosakiNo government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Thomas JeffersonReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaProgressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador DaliThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James BaldwinWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinThe only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.
Bad BunnyThere is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia EarhartThe atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George OrwellFor every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf 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.
Ray BradburyWhat we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald ReaganIf there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles DickensA lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.
Clint EastwoodHow terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
John MuirWhat the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady GagaActors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.
Clint EastwoodChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPrice is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren BuffettIf the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart TolleSociety has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.
Clint EastwoodAnyone 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 RooseveltAnd while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisI’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint EastwoodThe more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl MarxWe have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.
Pope FrancisThe effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.
Noam ChomskyVanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
Taylor SwiftWork is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham MaslowThe American people have not become heartless.
Joe BidenThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiOne of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
Robert Baden-PowellPeople love conspiracy theories.
Neil ArmstrongBabylon 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 MarleyNo group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. RooseveltHe 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.
AristotleThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliGreat countries are those that produce great people.
Benjamin DisraeliSongs 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 BowieMy music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob MarleyToo many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy CarterIn the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.
The WeekndMankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George WashingtonWe have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard ShawThe value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore RooseveltIf the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
Barack ObamaIt 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 AsimovThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauSubordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel JohnsonNo one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.
Huey Newton