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