It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
Society Quotes
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Society can transport money from the rich to the poor only in a leaky bucket.
Apart from an outside supernatural assistance, society goes from bad to worse until deterioration is universal. Not evolution but devolution is the law of man without God… With all of our boasted mechanical civilization, a day might come when our modern towers of Babel would be as forgotten as the first, when Americans would cease […]
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
To appraise a society, examine its ability to be self-correcting. When grievous wrongs are done or endemic suffering exposed, when injustice is discovered or opportunity denied, watch the institutions of government and business and charity. Their response is an index of a nation’s health and of a people’s strength.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
The whole of art is one long roll of revelation, and it is revealed only to those whose minds are to some extent what Horace, speaking of a woman whose heart is free, calls vacant. It is not for those whose minds are muddied with the dirt of politics, or heated with the vulgar chatter […]
