Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
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.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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.
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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.
