Society Quotes

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

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Dharma is law in its widest sense-spiritual, moral, ethical and temporal. Every individual, whether the ruler or the ruled, is governed by his or her own dharma. To the extent that society respected dharma, society protected itself; to the extent society offended it, society undermined.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow. Advancement - improvement in conditions - is the order of things in a society of equals.

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.