In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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.
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.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
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.
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 can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
It is not a fragrant world.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
