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

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

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Jim Rohn

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

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

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson

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