Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no your lean hungry men who are continually worrying society and setting the whole community by the ears.

An emancipated society on the other hand would not be a unitary state but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

If we wish to preserve a free society it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Society is like the air necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Travel and society polish one but a rolling stone gathers no moss and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Human rights commissions as they are evolving are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

Society is now one polished horde formed of two mighty tries the Bores and Bored.

Hip-hop reflects the truth and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information but it's also an escape.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.