Society quotes

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

I think the first duty of society is justice.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Society is at odds with itself.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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

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

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

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

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.