society Quotes

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.