4,426 Quotes About Society

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.