No human emotion can transcend the social conditions around it.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.