The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future..
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change..
Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself i….
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; a….
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has..
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself..
I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts..
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface..
Society lives by faith, and develops by science..
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions..
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science..
The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been ed….
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantag….
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign..
What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he ga….
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it..
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units..
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next..
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show th….
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next..
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect..