Society is like a stew - if you don't stir it up every now and then, the scum rises to the top.

The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

The problem with society is that we've replaced wisdom with data, character with credentials, and purpose with productivity.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

We have invented countless technologies for communication, yet we've never been worse at understanding each other.

A healthy society must have dissent and disagreement - it's the fever that fights infection.

Modern society: where we're connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

We've built a world where it's easier to buy things than to build character, to consume content than to create meaning.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The paradox of modern society: we have more freedom than ever before, yet feel more trapped than ever before.

A society that values safety over freedom deserves neither.

We've created a culture that celebrates visibility over substance, popularity over character, and trends over truth.

The health of a society is measured by the quality of its conversations.

Modern society is a machine for producing loneliness while promising connection.

A great society is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

We live in the age of information but the era of misinformation, surrounded by knowledge but starving for wisdom.

The ultimate society is one where the pursuit of truth is valued above the comfort of belief.

Our society teaches us to want more than we need, to consume more than we create, and to connect more than we relate.

A society that fears its youth has forgotten how to invest in its future.

The mark of a declining society is when it starts valuing symbols over substance, credentials over competence.

We've built a world of incredible convenience and unprecedented anxiety.

A society's progress is measured by the questions it asks, not the answers it gives.

The tragedy of modern society is that we have everything to live with and nothing to live for.

We judge societies by their monuments, but we should judge them by their maintenance of human dignity.

A society that cannot distinguish between reality and entertainment is a society in decline.

The health of a society is not measured by its wealth, but by the wealth of its health - physical, mental, and spiritual.