In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.