Quotes about Society
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
— GK Chesterton
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
— Henry David Thoreau
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
— CS Lewis
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
— Aristotle
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
— Pope John Paul II
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any
— Marilyn Monroe
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
— Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
— Marilyn Monroe
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
— Marina Abramovic