Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 295 Society quotesSociety QuotesSociety Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.~ Eric Hoffer Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself -- at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.~ John Haynes Holmes Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society but to make society.~ John Holt There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.~ J. Edgar Hoover [D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people’s lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.~ Victor Hugo The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.~ Eric Idle School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.~ Ivan Illich Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort -- as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.~ Robert G. Ingersoll The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.~ William James Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens.~ Thomas Jefferson The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.~ Thomas Jefferson The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.~ Thomas Jefferson A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.~ Thomas Jefferson Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.~ Thomas Jefferson Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print