Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Society Quotes
The whole of art is one long roll of revelation, and it is revealed only to those whose minds are to some extent what Horace, speaking of a woman whose heart is free, calls vacant. It is not for those whose minds are muddied with the dirt of politics, or heated with the vulgar chatter […]
Society goes on and on. It is the same with ideas.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.
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.
