Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated – too low down, a perfect choke-damp.
Society Quotes
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
Keep not ill men company lest you increase the number.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
He keeps his road well enough who gets rid of bad company.
If you want to know what it is to have the “correct” social order fizzle to nothing, come to Australia.
Distributed mass behavior, expressed in rallying, in voting, in picketing, in exposing corruption, and in purchases from particular companies, all have a profound effect on the nature of future society. More effect, I would argue, than the devastating but unsustainable effect of bombs and other forms of coercion.
A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself.
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.
