The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
John Locke

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin

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 A. Baldwin

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe Biden

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus