Society Quotes – Thoughtful Reflections on Human Interaction

"Monuments have never been built to critics, but they have often been built to the criticised."

Glenn Wesley Turner

"The world is made up of those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask what happened."

Norman Ralph Augustine

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."

Gloria Marie Steinem

"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all."

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."

Thomas Sowell

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

"Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive"

G. Edward Griffin

"When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral."

G. Edward Griffin

"Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are."

G. Edward Griffin

"The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about."

Walter Lippmann

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

Sir James Paul McCartney

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it"

Leo Tolstoi

"The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception."

G. Edward Griffin

"When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?"

John Milton

"Imagine North Korea in twenty years, when everyone must wear a biometric wristband that monitors your blood pressure, heart rate, and brain activity around the clock. You hear a speech from the great leader on the radio and they know what you really feel. You can clap your hands and smile, but if you are angry, they know you will be in the gulag tomorrow.

And if we allow the emergence of such total surveillance regimes, do not think that the rich and powerful will be safe in places like Davos."

Yuval Noah Harari

"Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown."

Juvenal

"Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats."

Alvin Toffler

"Taxes are a permitted form of robbery."

Thomas von Aquin