Quotes about Society

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe in the America people`s ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Jesse Ventura

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Anwar Sadat

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

You can`t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Norman Ernest Borlaug

You don`t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

Doug Floyd

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert V. Prochnow

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther

When all men lift the horn of plenty
in one happy equality,
when all men have an equal station
at the table of justice, and, see
the spiritual light break shining
through the windows of every house
then we can say, no more wandering,
Canaan is here, let us rejoice!

Sándor Petőfi

Mankind is not yet grown, I`m saying.
But he aspires, and thus he`s wild.
His parents - thought, and love undying -
may they watch over their lost child.

Attila József

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Dennis Gabor

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov