Quotes about Society

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband!

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke

But her feeling towards the vulgar rich was a sort of religious hatred: they had probably made all their money out of high prices for everything that was not paid in kind at the Rectory: such people were no part of God's plan in making the world; and their accent was an affliction to the ears. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the universe.

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.

You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.