society
There is such an intimate connection between the different parts of Society, that one cannot strike one part without its having repercussions on the others.
- Jean François Melon
It is precisely when a social order begins to fall apart that one can discern what has held it together in the first place.
- Karl Mannheim
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine
History may measure the worth of a nation not by the lilt of its slogans or the might of its arsenals or its troyweights of gold, but by how evenhandedly it has dealt with all its citizens and how consistently it has denied dignity to none.
- Richard Kluger
In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
- Karl Popper
Everyone should have biases, and should be forgiven them.
- Scott Weidensaul
The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens.
- Edward Snowden
No national culture can have a healthy and continuous growth without being periodically fertilized by fresh inspiration and new ideas from abroad.
- C. R. Boxer
Wherever purity is paramount, terror is close at hand.
- Lawrence Wright
Better 60 years of tyranny than 1 day of anarchy.
- An Arab proverb
Class is defined by men as they live their own history.
- E.P. Thompson
A constitution is a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.
- Edmund Burke
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
- Rice v. Cayetano
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- John Marshall Harlan
It is collective self-consciousness which distinguishes the 19th century working class from the 18th century mob.
- E. P. Thompson
A sort of Socratic spirit will necessarily grow up, wherever large bodies assemble.
- John Thelwall
The lord prefers common looking people, that is why he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The mass is always the magnified reflection of some individual.
- Harry Reichenbach
Institutions are the shadows of men.
- Emerson
The more hierarchical a society becomes, the stronger is the cultural dominion of its elite.
- David Hackett Fischer
There will always be an inner circle of corporate executives, politicians, lawyers, and judges to control the others and obtain the real rewards.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The river of power flows from the Ivy League.
- Joe Biden
The laws are spider webs, they catch the little, but are brushed aside by the big.
- Saying in the Spanish Indies
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A law is a prediction of what the courts will do.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Law forces us to distill things down to their essence.
- Mary Jo White
Lawyers are on all sides of all questions.
- Richard Kluger
A lawyer is simply a highly skilled technician who does not build or erect or paint anything. He does not create. All he does is lubricate the wheels of society by implementing the rules of conduct by which the organized life of men must be carried on.
- John W. Davis
The magnet which attracts corrupters and the natural locus of corruption is always where the discretionary power resides.
- Edward Costikyan
The hand you dare not bite, kiss it.
- Calouste Gulbenkian
In the real world, everyone has something to lose.
- Thomas Friedman
There’s always a best hotel in every town. And the best room of the best hotel always has someone in it.
- J. Paul Getty
If this is not democracy, then it is difficult to imagine what is.
- Robert Moses
Understanding political power in a democracy requires understanding elections.
- Robert Caro
All winning campaigns communicate optimism.
- Richard Ben Cramer
Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest arts.
- Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate victory will depend on the hearts and minds of the people.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Vom Staat soll an erster Stelle die Rede sein.
- A principal shared among German historians.
Symbolism becomes considerably more important in foreign policy issues than in bread and butter domestic issues where the voter can measure promises and rhetoric against performance and reliability.
- Richard Holbrooke
In government, foolish certainty usually beats fragile wisdom.
- George Packer
Government by precedent, without regard of the principals behind precedent, is one of the vilest systems that can be setup.
- Thomas Paine
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the later.
- Thomas Jefferson
The daily newspaper is the prayer of the modern man.
- Hegel
In a crisis the middle class mind tries to assume a lofty detachment from the deep issues of the day.
- Max Lerner
Sensible men are all of the same religion, but they’d never tell.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If there were not merchants who go to seek for earthly treasures in the Indies, who would transport thither the preachers who take the heavenly treasures?
- Pablo Antonio Vieira
The more backwards a country, the more powerful is the influence of religious superstition and the more likely the people are to worship idols and animals.
- Kume Kunitake
The Reformation spoke the language of nationalism.
- Namier
Behind every great civilization is a vision.
- Christopher Dawson
Mankind progresses from East to West.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is moving to the left.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Every generation cherishes illusions which baffle its successors.
- William Manchester
We are all marked to some extent by the stamp of our generation.
- Anthony Eden
What a convenient thing is a mask. Under the mask every man is equal and the principal magistrates can daily discover for themselves all the little things that concern the people. Behind the mask the doge himself may often be taking a walk.
- Goldoni
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- Leo Tolstoy
Happy is the country that produces a hero. Unhappy is the people that need one.
- Bertolt Brecht
Religion conciliates, magic constrains.
- James George Fraser
It is not the nature of established governments to opt for change, even in their own interests.
- Barbara Tuchman
Wants may be easily satisfied by producing much or desiring little.
- Marshall Sahlins
Dare to know. Have courage to use your own reason. This is the motto of the enlightenment.
- Immanuel Kant
Artillery deepens the tone of the argument.
- Shelby Foote
Orthodoxies serve to exploit the moral authority of an inherited doctrine in the interest of a ruling group.
- Isaac Deutscher
To re-educate the people in the love of liberty is more difficult than to conquer liberty.
- Babeuf
Great art discloses much that does not appear elsewhere - the unconscious forces, the unspoken ideas, the silent motives of a period.
- George Sansom
Every man is trying to live up to his fathers expectations or make up for his fathers mistakes.
- Barack Obama
There are things that must be concealed in order to be attained. Proclaiming them for what they are would give rise to obstacles too formidable to be overcome.
- José Martí
The pupil is mature when he has learned enough from others to learn for himself.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Politics is no science, it is an art. And anyone without the knack for it should leave it alone.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The keywords of Chinese thought are order, pattern, and organism.
- Joseph Needham
I will tell you what politics is about. I make a decision. I tell someone else the opposite. Then I do something which surprises even myself.
- Saddam Hussein
The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean Ukraine.
- George Bush
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
- William Sherman
There is no such thing as society, there are individual men and women.
- Margaret Thatcher
A worldview is the projection of psychological inclination onto reality.
- George Packer
A dungeon is as good a place as any for a patriot to serve his country in time of strain.
- Shelby Foote
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
In democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve.
- Adlai Stevenson
To know how to deceive is the knowledge of kings.
- Richelieu
The people must have a religion, and the religion must be in the hands of the government.
- Napoleon
Reality television is a museum of social decay.
- Gary Oldman
There are three things worthwhile in the world. Justice, beauty, and truth. Perhaps none can be defined.
- Will Durant
He who cannot obey cannot command.
- Aristotle
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Julia Coleman