If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore Roosevelt

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

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

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost

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

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David Thoreau

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde