Quotes about Society

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Youth holds no society with grief.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no democracy, since that is what democracy is.

It is not the radicalism of hate that is our biggest danger today; our biggest danger is that we lack the radicalism of love.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.