Quote by Bertrand Russell

“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including…

— Bryant McGill

“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.”

— Mark Sagoff

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams

“…the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired…

— Tom Robbins

“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical,…

— John Stuart Mill

“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more…

— John Stuart Mill

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it…

— Samuel R. Delany

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the…

— Hannah Arendt

“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern powers of…

— Karl Marx

“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force…

— Richard Morgan