Quotes about Society

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

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

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.