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- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? — Erich Fromm
- Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine
- An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. — Theodor Adorno
- The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie