Society

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SOCIETY: The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. (Unknown Source)
SOCIETY: It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. (Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)
SOCIETY: What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger, U.S. psychiatrist, 1893-1990)
SOCIETY: 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)
SOCIETY: 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)
SOCIETY: Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. (Henry George, U.S. socialist economist and journalist, 1839-1897)
SOCIETY: Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. (French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms, 1741-1794)