Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
Roy Lichtenstein

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Herbert Spencer

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond Chandler

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Marian Wright Edelman

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
David Ricardo

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
Alex Grey

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
John Stuart Mill