Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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.
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.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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 function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
