The well-being of individual persons in any society varies…

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

— Zero Mostel

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.…

— Duane Elgin

The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If…

— Hermann Goring

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

— Carroll Quigley

“It seemed to her that while people were very happy, individual persons were surely damned. So, she shrank from that specious mystery the individual…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief…

— Maimonides

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

— Rollo May

Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes…

— Doug Casey

For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's…

— Robert Higgs

We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil…

— Jack Keane

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

— Carly Fiorina

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to…

— George Will

Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges.

— Javier Milei

Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents…

— David Lammy

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi