Quotes on Society

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

I could speak for hours about equality and what needs to change in football and in society as a whole. But in the end, everything comes back to respect.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.