Quotes About Society

X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

consider that for whatever purpose each thing has been constituted, for this it has been constituted, and towards this it is carried; and its end is in that towards which it is carried; and where the end is, there also is the advantage and the good of each thing. Now the good for the reasonable animal is society; for that we are made for society has been shown above.

a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else.

En primer lugar, nada hagas sin reflexionar ni sin fin alguno, y en segundo, no lleves otro fin sino el bien de la sociedad.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. —PLATO, The Republic

In a sense, people are our proper occupation

In a wicked generation, might makes right, violence is praised, and virtue is slandered." —Hesiod, Works and Days

Que seja uma só a sua vontade: a de algo realizar, ou se abster, segundo determina a sua razão de ente integrado à sociedade.

Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity, or mutual society doth require.

the good for a rational being is community. It was established long ago that we were born for community.

and the end of rational animals is to follow the reason and the law of the most ancient city and polity.

How beautifully Plato put it. Whenever you want to talk about people, it's best to take a bird's-eye view and see everything all at once—of gatherings, armies, farms, weddings and divorces, births and deaths, noisy courtrooms or silent spaces, every foreign people, holidays, memorials, markets—all blended together and arranged in a pairing of opposites.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

In the United States, the central values of our culture are the "three A's": attractiveness, achievement, and affluence. For

the spirit of industrial society"—a way of living organized around production and consumption.7 Our modern preoccupation with producing and consuming leads us to live on the surface level of reality and to seek our satisfaction in the finite. But the sacred is known in the depths of reality, not in the manipulation and consumption of the surface.

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that fear is a more powerful political motive in our society than compassion.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws are.

The good life is impossible without a good state; and there is no greater blessing than a well-ordered state.

We are all servants of the laws in order to be free

Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].

Res publica res est populi A republic is the people's property

But since the resources of individuals are small, while the multitude of those who need them is unbounded