Best Society Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We rise by lifting others.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

We will not go back to where we were when the pandemic started. That is pretty certain. But that is the only thing that is certain. Everything else is up for grabs. I do not think anybody knows how capitalism will evolve.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

You know, if people are not pacifists, it’s not their fault. It’s because society puts them in that spot. You’ve got to change it. You don’t just change a man – you’ve got to change his environment as you do it.

The distance between a truly healthy society and what America was like under Obama is many orders of magnitude greater than the distance between what America was like under Obama and what America is like under Trump.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents–but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards–and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

It isn’t so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

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

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato’s world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.