Society - Quotes
The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment.
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Show me a man or woman alone and I`ll show you a saint. Give me two and they`ll fall in love. Give me three and they`ll invent the charming thing we call 'society'.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
All of us lie in some way. It is a precondition for society to function, that we lie a little bit. You can view it as a form of consideration. The truth is, in a way, very self-centred.