society Quotes

I think Americans are very patriotic.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.