Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Karl Marx

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Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Karl Marx

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Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Karl Marx

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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Karl Marx

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Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Karl Marx

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A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

Nelson Mandela

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