Society Quotes

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable." "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage" "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under" "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office" "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion" "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but their social being that determines their consciousness" "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions" "The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity" "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated" "To perfect oneself is as much as to perfect a part of society." "The world is the effect of diversification."