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