Quotes about Society

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

It is the legislator's task to frame a society which shall make the good life possible. Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Crime is common. Logic is rare.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.