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Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.