Quotes about Society

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act