The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.

— Unknown Source

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986

What’s done to children, they will do to society.

— Karl A. Menninger, U.S. psychiatrist, 1893-1990

The seven social sins are: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Commerce without morality; Science without humanity: Worship without sacrifice; Worship without sacrifice.

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson, British Christian socialist who served as Canon of Westminster Abbey, 1860-1953

To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

— Henry George, U.S. socialist economist and journalist, 1839-1897

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

— French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794
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