Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.Jacob Bronowski
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.Thomas Mann
Perhaps at the end of this century, two classes of men will be distinguished: some formed by television and others by reading.Ernst Jünger
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.Plato
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.Gilbert K. Chesterton
One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.Franz Kafka
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.Russell Kirk
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.Jean Cocteau
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.Pope John Paul II
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.John F. Kennedy
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.Narendra Modi
One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.Mark Manson
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?Erich Fromm
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.Billy Joel
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.Theodor W. Adorno
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.Blake Lively
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.George Orwell
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.H. L. Mencken
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.J. Edgar Hoover
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
The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.Yuval Noah Harari
In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.Kanye West
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.A. J. Liebling
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.William T. Vollmann
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.Andrew Weil