"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
"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."
Mahatma Gandhi on Society"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Mahatma Gandhi on Society"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
Barbara Jordan on Society"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."