4,426 Quotes About Society

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.

Men needs to empower women more, so that they can give us the kind of society that we can be proud of.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.