"Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer."

"The truly free person in society is a disciplined person."

"I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society."

"Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person."

"I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one."

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."

"I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely."

"Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people."

"Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don['t care whether you call it capitalism or communism -it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come."

"(Farm workers) are involved in the planting and the cultivation and the harvesting of the greatest abundance of food known in this society. They bring in so much food to feed you and me and the whole country and enough food to export to other places. The ironic thing and the tragic thing is that after they make this tremendous contribution, they don't have any money or any food left for themselves."

"History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless."

"Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex."

"Farm workers are society's canaries. Farm workers - and their children - demonstrate the effects of pesticide poisoning before anyone else."

"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society."

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed."

"Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment."

"Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers."

"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society."

"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."