The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.
Tribes like this are the truly affluent societies — not because they are so wealthy but because they do not want more than they have.
To assert, in any case, that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this today.
There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don’t have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
The Soul selects her own Society — Then — shuts the Door — To her divine Majority — Present no more —
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Society cannot speak with one voice so long as it is split into warring classes.[Die Gesellschaft hat kein gemeinsames Sprachrohr, solange sie in kämpfende Klassen gespalten ist.]
Our worst foes are ignorance, poverty, and the unconscious cruelty of our commercial society.
