"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty." ― Samuel Butler Topic(s): Society More From Samuel Butler "A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it." "Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both." "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor." More In Society "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."― George Orwell "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."― James A. Baldwin "When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled."― J. William Fulbright