Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.

One cannot raise the bottom of a society without benefiting everyone above.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.

In human society the warmth is mainly at the bottom.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.