Thought for Today

"There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed."

~~~~~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Thought for Today

"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."

~~~~~ Alexis de Tocqueville

Thought for Today

"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."

~~~~~ Gideon Welles

Thought for the Century

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."

~~~~~ Robertson Davies

Thought for Today

"What's done to children, they will do to society."

~~~~~ Karl A. Menninger

Thought for Today

"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."

~~~~~ Gideon Welles

Thought for Today

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

~~~~~ Robert A. Heinlein

Thought for Today

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves."

~~~~~ Joseph Priestley

Thought for Today

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

~~~~~ Ed Abbey

Thought for Today

"But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences."

~~~~~ John Stuart Mill