51 quotes
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“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
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.”
— Rollo May
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
“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.”
— Krishnamurti
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
“If we do not maintain justice justice will not maintain us”
— Francis Bacon
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
— Aristotle
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
— Seneca
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Pope John XXIII
“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
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
— Victor Hugo
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
— Cicero
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
— Isaac Asimov
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
“The family is the building block on which a great society is founded.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“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
“I feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a society”
— Shirin Neshat
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Unknown
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions”
— John Rawls
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
— Richard Rorty
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together”
“The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.”
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