48 quotes
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions”
— John Rawls
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a society”
— Shirin Neshat
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
— Aristotle
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.”
— Rollo May
“The family is the building block on which a great society is founded.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Unknown
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
“If we do not maintain justice justice will not maintain us”
— Francis Bacon
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
— Adam Smith
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
— Richard Rorty
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
— Pope John XXIII
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
— Victor Hugo
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
— Emily Brontë
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.”
— Krishnamurti
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
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