Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

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.

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

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.