51 quotes
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.”
— Isaac Asimov
“There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
— Nelson Mandela
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
— Unknown
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.”
— Aristotle
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
“If we do not maintain justice justice will not maintain us”
— Francis Bacon
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains”
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.”
— Rollo May
“The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
— Richard Rorty
“Man is by nature a social animal.”
“Compassion is the basis of all morality, but justice is the basis of all society.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
— Cicero
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
— Victor Hugo
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“I feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a society”
— Shirin Neshat
“The family is the building block on which a great society is founded.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. True peace requires transformation.”
“Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.”
— Seneca
— Krishnamurti
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
— Adam Smith
“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.”
— Junius
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.”
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
— Emily Brontë
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions”
— John Rawls
— Pope John XXIII
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
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