“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
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“There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.”
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”
“Music is always a commentary on society.”
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
“All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.”
“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.”
“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.”
“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.”
“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
“Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.”
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
“As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.”