Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

In human society the warmth is mainly at the bottom.

We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

One cannot raise the bottom of a society without benefiting everyone above.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.