Rational Society Quotes

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for understanding among all peoples and all cultures-a search that can only be effective when learning is pursued on a worldwide basis.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.

In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.