Quotes About Society

There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

Women cannot enjoy a tolerable position in society where it is considered of the utmost importance that they should not infringe a very rigid moral code.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.

it is sad really to see the kind of boys that are common everywhere. No mind, no independent thought, no love of good books nor of the higher refinements of morality. It is really sad that the upper classes of a civilised and (supposed to be) moral country can produce nothing better.

It is curious that Mill makes very little mention of the police as a danger to liberty. In our day they are its worst enemy...

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party.

And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would fall flat.

A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much murder and anarchy are we prepared to endure for the sake of great achievements such as those of the Renaissance?

It must be admitted, however, that life in More's Utopia, as in most others, would be intolerably dull.

There was a very general development, first from monarchy to aristocracy, then to an alternation of tyranny and democracy.

The decay of the family in quite recent times is undoubtedly to be attributed in the main to the industrial revolution, but it had already begun before that event, and its beginnings were inspired by individualistic theory. Young

Loss of zest in civilized society is very largely due to the restrictions upon liberty which are essential to our way of life.

Next, he points out that good men are better to live among than bad men, and therefore he cannot be so foolish as to corrupt his fellow-citizens intentionally; but if unintentionally, then Meletus should instruct him, not prosecute him.

seems that men are at their best between sixty and seventy, the reason being that in such occupations a wide experience of other men is essential.

And a society composed of men and women who do not bow too much to the conventions is a far more interesting society than one in which all behave alike.

Civilization checks impulse not only through forethought, which is a self-administered check, but also through law, custom, and religion.

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Los capitalistas, militaristas y eclesiásticos cooperan en la educación, porque el poder de todos ellos depende del prevalecimiento del sentimentalismo y de la excepcionalidad del juicio crítico.

We cannot admire a social system which allows no scope for individual achievement, and we cannot approve one in which excessive individualism makes the social system unstable.

The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle to happiness in a competitive society.

It is held that no woman can have a good moral influence unless she is or pretends to be indifferent to the male sex.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.