society
“Men in general judge more by the eyes than by the hands; for everyone can see and few can feel.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.”
“As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
“Panem et circenses.”
“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”
“Women are, by their nature, capable of the same activities as men.”
“Man is by nature a political animal; he who is unfit to live in society is either a beast or a god.”
“Democracy is judged by the character of those who compose it.”
“Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends.”
“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”
“Civilization is the goal of society; its corruption is the beginning of its end.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness.”
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others.”