“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”– Samuel Johnson Related Quotes “The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”– Adrienne Rich “I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society.”– Bryan Cranston