We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Ronald Reagan

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Robert Kennedy

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Alexander Hamilton

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Hunter S. Thompson

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

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke