No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger. |
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged. |
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. |
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. |
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. |
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. |
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. |
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. |
Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors. |
The most violent element in society is ignorance. |