society Quotes

Evil draws men together.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be... ...

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the... ...

Lower classes rebel to become equal, and equals rebel to become superior. This mindset causes revolutions.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the... ...

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of... ...

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.