Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.