I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.
Jim Carrey

I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice Walker

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
Neale Donald Walsch

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
Gloria Steinem

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Tse-Tung

Music is always a commentary on society.
Frank Zappa

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer