Quote by Franklin Foer

“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

“dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”

— Wesley J. Smith

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this…

— Lewis Hyde

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

— Junius

“The societies that abandon their responsibilities but claim rights, become the most intolerant and corrupt.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection, are very…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.”

— David Levithan

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands…

— Joan Smith

“(A) society of disconnected individuals without responsibility for one another isn't a society at all.”

— Melissa McEwan

“The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What”

— Don DeLillo