A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself.
Society Quotes
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Society can transport money from the rich to the poor only in a leaky bucket.
Apart from an outside supernatural assistance, society goes from bad to worse until deterioration is universal. Not evolution but devolution is the law of man without God… With all of our boasted mechanical civilization, a day might come when our modern towers of Babel would be as forgotten as the first, when Americans would cease […]
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
To appraise a society, examine its ability to be self-correcting. When grievous wrongs are done or endemic suffering exposed, when injustice is discovered or opportunity denied, watch the institutions of government and business and charity. Their response is an index of a nation’s health and of a people’s strength.
