"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Society Tags: dollar, value More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Science does not know its debt to imagination." "Men are what their mothers made them." "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself." More In Society "I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified."― Benjamin Tucker "It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."― William Graham Sumner "Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."― Michel Foucault