Quotes about Society
If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.
- George Weigel
Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water, like Pilate.
- Graham Greene
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
- William Hazlitt
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- George Bernard Shaw
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
- William Hazlitt
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
- Alexander Hamilton
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
- Victor Hugo