Society

"I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society."

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute."

"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."

"One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence."

"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe."

"A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom."

"Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen."

"We always blame society for everything yet we forget we are the society."

"To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace."

"A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights."