Society QuotesNeither god nor soul can save society. Americans use sick soldiers to spread disease inside the Iraqi society I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. In the great body of human society it is impossible to establish unity and coordination if one part is considered perfect and the other imperfect. When the perfect functions of both parts are in operation, harmony will prevail. God has created man and woman equal as to faculties. He has made no distinction between them. In a society where many women are finding it difficult to have husbands of their own due to depletion of men by many factors, homosexuality will exacerbate the disequilibrium, leading to much social unrest. Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what its told from a narrow range of experts and institutions. I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth. There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery. 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. A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me. With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. |
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