society quotes

“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?”

— Honore de Balzac

“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. ”

“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.”

— Thomas Paine

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

“I think the first duty of society is justice.”

— Alexander Hamilton

“Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

— James Baldwin

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.”

— Tim Robbins