Generations Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

— H. L. Mencken

If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence…

— Robert Owen

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community,…

— Peter Drucker

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been…

— Clifford D. Simak

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

— Albert Camus

But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for…

— Golda Meir

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at…

— Elizabeth Kostova

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions…

— Noam Chomsky

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more…

— Thomas Paine

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

— Honore de Balzac