There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but there are few who will face a hostile society.
Society Quotes
I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
The frustrated and able child is likely to grow up with a conscious or unconscious resentment against society that has done him an irreparable injustice, and his repressed ability may be diverted from creation to retaliation. If and when this happens, it is likely to be a tragedy for the frustrated individual and for the […]
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.
It is customary nowadays to speak of “social engineering.” Like planning, this term is a synonym for dictatorship and totalitarian tyranny. The idea is to treat human beings in the same way in which the engineer treats the stuff out of which he builds bridges, roads, and machines.
The transcendent law of nature and of nature’s God… declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all institutions must be sacrificed.
Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire among the people aversion to the upper classes of society.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
