Quotes About Society

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Isn't that weird, we've made nature against the law. That's how un-natural we've become.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.