The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Later, in a more perfect society, someone else made just like me is certain to appear and act freely.
The relationships between consciousness and reality are extremely complex.... It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Pragmatism reflects a society that has no time to remember and meditate.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
Solitude sometimes is best society.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Our criticism of the thesis advanced by the Society for European Culture is that it is monstrously anti-humanist. For if European civilization were to be imposed, unmodified, on all Peoples and Continents, it could only be by force
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Society is well governed when people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.