society quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
90
"To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness."
1002
"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
1008
"We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society."
61
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
856
"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions, and interests dictate."
876
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort…is…but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule."
877
"In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society."
1018
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
1039