The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.