Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.
Society Quotes
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
‘Social Darwinism’ is often taken to be something extraneous, an ugly concretion added to the pure Darwinian corpus after the event, tarnishing Darwin’s image. But his notebooks make plain that competition, free trade, imperialism, racial extermination, and sexual inequality were written into the equation from the start- ‘Darwinism’ was always intended to explain human society.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable. (Cymbeline)
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.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
