Quotes about Society

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

For solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return.

Pop music will never be low brow.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

For example, after a half-century of Johnson's "Great Society" welfare programs, which have cost trillions of dollars, the national poverty rate remains roughly the same as it was in the 1960s. And despite countless promises by President Obama that his policies would make health coverage and college more affordable,56 health insurance costs and college expenses are significantly higher than they were when Obama implemented his reforms.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.