Quotes about Society
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
- James Madison
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.
- John Adams
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, and by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
- John Milton
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
- William McKinley
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
- Mike Huckabee
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
- Alain de Botton
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.
- Charles Dickens
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
- Barack Obama
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
- Mark Twain