When a man meets his make, society begins.
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
God has formed us moral agents. . . that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.
A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
The society killed Kendra. ". . . Don't mention it to Verl. He might dive into a chasm.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.
I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
