Quotes About Society

Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Let there be one man who has a city obedient to his will, and he might bring into existence the ideal polity about which the world is so incredulous.

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

Pese a que en los estratos medios y altos hay los ingredientes culturales capaces de ver con toda lucidez las calamidades que produce el populismo, los sectores marginales de la sociedad, que en América Latina son mayoritarios, permanecen —gracias a las continuas prebendas que reciben— fieles a quienes dicen que ejercen el poder en su nombre y en contra de los privilegiados.

Si el Estado del Bienestar redistribuye la pobreza y reduce los ingresos, el buenismo educativo redistribuye la ignorancia y reduce el conocimiento".

The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

The very points of my character that are most commended mark me as unfit to reign: love of retirement and of studies inconsistent with business, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose meetings are but those of worship and of kindly intercourse, whose lives in general are spent upon their farms and their pastures.

Lycurgus did not regard sons as the peculiar property of their fathers, but rather as the common property of the state

The art of wise administration consist in making certain concessions and granting that which will please the people, while demanding in return an obedience and cooperation which will benefit the whole community. p235-236

That best and justest fabric of things was of no long continuance, because it wanted that cement which should have kept all together, education.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.