society
“Grub first, then ethics.”
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
“Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”
“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.”
“Manners are of more importance than laws.”
“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition.”
“The paradox of education is precisely this—that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”