Quotes About Society

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

An actor should refine public taste.

There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.

Man, though he be gray-headed when he comes back, soon gets a young wife. But a woman?s time is short within which she can expect to obtain a husband. If she allows it to slip away, no one cares to marry her. She sits at home, speculating on the probability of her marriage.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

Every commonwealth being, as we have said, a partnership, it follows, that in every commonwealth men must be partners in some things or in all. Some things they must possess in common, since the community could not otherwise subsist.

Justice is the fundamental virtue of political society, since the order of society cannot be maintained without law, and laws are instituted to declare what is just.

Perfected by the offices and duties of social life, man is the best, but, rude and undisciplined, he is the very worst of animals.

A participation in rights and advantages forms the bond of political society; an institution prior, in the intention of nature, to the families and individuals from whom it is constituted.

Whoever, therefore, is unfit to live in a commonwealth, is above or below humanity.

Every political society forms, it is plain, a sort of community or partnership, instituted for the benefit of the partners. Utility is the end and aim of every such institution; and the greatest and most extensive utility is the aim of that great association, comprehending all the rest, and known by the name of a commonwealth.

Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.

Man delights in society far more than do bees or herds.