society Quotes

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.