Society Quotes

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

The transcendent law of nature and of nature’s God… declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all institutions must be sacrificed.

Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire among the people aversion to the upper classes of society.

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

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

I’ve had a taste of society And society has had a taste of me.

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

Sir, I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.