Quotes About Society

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.