Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no your lean hungry men who are continually worrying society and setting the whole community by the ears.

An emancipated society on the other hand would not be a unitary state but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

If we wish to preserve a free society it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Society is like the air necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.