Quotes About Society

But he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Democracy, he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; oligarchy a government not of the few but of the rich.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by the women?

El cuerpo político sólo debe componerse de ciudadanos armados. En cuanto al censo, no es posible fijar la cantidad de una manera absoluta e invariable; pero debe dársele la base más ancha posible, para que el número de los que tengan parte en el gobierno sobrepuje al de los que queden excluidos de él.

For political science does not make men, but takes them from nature and uses them; and nature provides them with food from different elements of earth, air, or sea.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible. Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty.

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

One who surpasses his fellow-citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.

We proceed next to consider in what manner property should be regulated in a state which is formed after the most perfect mode of government, whether it should be common or not;

It is also an error in democracies for the demagogues to endeavour to make the common people superior to the laws; and thus by setting them at variance with the rich, dividing one city into two; whereas they ought rather to speak in favour of the rich.

Uygarl??? tamamen yok etmek isteyenler anarÅŸistlerdir. Bütün kimyac?lar, profesörler, bilim ve edebiyat adamlar? anarÅŸisttir. Ama toplum onlar? cezaland?rmaz, çünkü adli düzen yok olmuÅŸtur. KiÅŸilere sald?r? bile art?k mümkün deÄŸildir çünkü her vatanda??n üstünde elektrikli korunma cihazlar? vard?r.

we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them.

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

De prikkelende beelden waarmee de maatschappij ons voortdurend confronteert hebben geen enkel ander doel dan fantasieën in ons wakker te roepen waardoor ons denken wordt verhinderd, waardoor wij verdoofd door het leven sjokken als slaven van onze hormonen

Good men were not to be made merely by laws which relied for their sanction on force but only by religion and morality, which appealed to the conscience. Only when the people, he wrote, had emptied them-selves of all the lust of selfish will—and without religion it was impossible they should—could absolute power be safely entrusted to the State.

the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.