Society proverbs

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◆ A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

- Jeanette Winterson99

◆ Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

- John Lennon99

◆ Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

- Hillary Clinton99

◆ We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

- Nelson Mandela99

◆ All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

- Robert Kennedy99

◆ If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

- Zig Ziglar99

◆ I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

- Brendan Behan99

◆ The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

- Erich Fromm99

◆ No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

- Adam Smith99

◆ Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

- Karl Marx99

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

- James A. Baldwin99