Society Quotes

  • I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.Upload to Facebook
    I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
    ~ Winston Churchill
  • No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people strongerUpload to Facebook
    No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger
    ~ Pamela Sutherland
  • We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.Upload to Facebook
    We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
    ~ Chris Hedges
  • In a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.Upload to Facebook
    In a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • Ah, the perks of Socialism. You get to be righteous with no accountability.Upload to Facebook
    Ah, the perks of Socialism. You get to be righteous with no accountability.
    ~ Chetan Bhagat
  • Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.Upload to Facebook
    Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
    ~ Mark Twain
  • Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.Upload to Facebook
    Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
    ~ Robert Hugh Benson
  • A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.Upload to Facebook
    A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.
    ~ Thomas Jefferson
  • Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.Upload to Facebook
    Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
    ~ Edmund Burke
  • Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.Upload to Facebook
    Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
    ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
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