“the public is a fool.”
Alexander Pope

“An enterprise culture is one in which every individual understands that the world does not owe him or her a living.”
Peter Morgan

“I think it would be a good idea.”
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization.

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Greek proverb

“There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen’s rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities.”
Paxton Blair

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”
Elias Boudinot

“Every society honours it’s live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Mignon McLaughlin

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela