“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
“None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti’s example.”
“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”
“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”
“In any society, fanatics who hate don’t hate only me – they hate you, too. They hate everybody.”
“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.”