Quotes about Society

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition or capacity. There will always be inequalities in character and ability in any society. Equality has meant rather that in the words of the Declaration of Independence, All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. It is meant that in a democratic society there should be no inequalities in opportunities or in freedoms.

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

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.

We make her bear and raise our children And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen We tell her, home is the only place she should be Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.