Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John Burroughs

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Thomas Babington

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Vladimir Nabokov

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
John Naisbitt

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
John Naisbitt

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
Yoko Ono

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
Alain de Botton

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
bell hooks

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James Baldwin

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
John Updike

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
Friedrich August von Hayek

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Friedrich August von Hayek

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
Friedrich August von Hayek

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson