The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Hillary Clinton

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
Thomas Sowell

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
Thomas Sowell

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Marshall McLuhan

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
Alfred Adler

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean Koontz