The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice be kind share put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts and that's the right thing for society.
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree while the other is in distress try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
If co-operation is thus the lifeblood of science and technology it is similarly vital to society as a whole.