Quotes about Society

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

I love Humanity but I hate humans

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people.