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It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.

Alexander Hamilton

Stichwörter: society united-states chance violence government accident

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Paul Farmer

Stichwörter: wealth society capitalism poverty medicine

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller

Stichwörter: society news culture essay commentary

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stichwörter: freedom society privilege principles president

...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...

Thomas Hardy

Stichwörter: society marriage

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Woodrow Wilson

Stichwörter: education society work class american-education sad-but-true

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau

Stichwörter: morality society self-belief

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)

Albert Einstein

Stichwörter: knowledge social society opinions dissent thought disagreement equanimity expressing prejudices

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Luis Valdez

Stichwörter: liberty freedom history society united-states usa chicano native-american