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What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.
— Friedrich Engels
Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
— Lawrence Lessig
At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.
— Stephen Richards
That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.
— Richard Diaz
The onus of Connecting rightly, Conceiving brightly, Conveying quietly, and Concluding wisely are the capatencies (capacity and competence) of man
— Priyavrat Thareja
Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.
— Debasish Mridha
Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
— Kapil Dev
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
— John Roberts
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
— Elliott Abrams
The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.
— Mark Sagoff
The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
— Frans De Waal
I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
— Billy Graham
A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good paperbacks are among the most valuable weapons of any society. Good hardcovers doubly so.
— Matthew Keefer
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
It is good for society to have this introspection.
— Jacques Verges
I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.
— Luke Ford
[ ... ] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex [ ... ]
— Jane Austen
If you find a need, reach out to help.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The good guys wouldn't exist without the bad guys that unfortunately balance our society.
— Ben Tolosa
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
— Abraham Maslow
If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.
— Virginia Woolf
Having women on boards is good for women, good for the economy and good for society. A win-win-win outcome: how rare.
— Noreena Hertz
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal - you sockdologizing old man-trap.
— Tom Taylor
It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.
— Earl Felton
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
— Edward Abbey
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
— Tom Peters
I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
— Wole Soyinka
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
— Saadi
The sign of a good society is one that protect its weakest. The strong can always look after themselves.
— Dave Courtney
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
— Robert Bork
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
— H. Rider Haggard
Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society."46
— Jonathan Haidt
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
— Jacques Delors
It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
— Catherine McAuley
Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it's done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.
— Chuck Klosterman
Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society.
— Charlene Diane Jones
I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.
— David Cross
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
— William Hazlitt
It may be, in the end, that a good society is defined more by how people treat strangers than by how they treat those they know.
— James Surowiecki
Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
— Saul Bellow
[ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality
— Marilyn Manson
Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.
— Owsley Stanley
The right, real and good connection between things produces the right, real and good things.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
— William Damon
(When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do not hold back good from those to whom it is owing, when it happens to be in the power of your hand to do it.
— Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.
— Adam McKay
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
— James Cook
My condolences, you're still alive.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
— Edmund Burke
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
There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
— Greg M. Epstein
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.
— Russell T. Davies
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
— Idries Shah
My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
— Anne Wojcicki
Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
— George Bernard Shaw
It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
— Sarah Gavron
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
— Edmund Leach
We may not agree on what a good society is, but... we will never have one until we realize that the public we complain about is us.
— Kenneth L. Woodward
Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction,
— George Eliot
A society that lacks good people willing to speak against evil or low standards can only devolve into darkness and mediocrity.
— Brendon Burchard
The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.
— Paul Weyrich
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
— Jude Morgan
In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
— Margaret Mead
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
— Oscar Wilde
Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn't somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.
— Lynda Resnick
Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
— Oscar Fernandes
She is a good person and she's just different among others. But being different doesn't mean you are bad or doesn't belong to the society.
— Cherry Seniel
In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.
— Eliza Haywood
I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society.
— George W. Bush
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
— Georg Baselitz
In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
— George MacDonald
Note, my good doctor," said I, "that without fools, society would be a very tiresome place!
— Mikhail Lermontov