society Quotes

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Man is by nature a political animal.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.