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Society

Society therefore is an ancient as the world. – Voltaire

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

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. – Karl Marx

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. – Mike Tyson

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. – Niccolo Machiavelli

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously. – Jerry Garcia

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

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Society is at odds with itself. – Clint Eastwood

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth. – Clint Eastwood

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises. – Mitt Romney

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along. – Carl Sandburg

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

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

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx

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

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx

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

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