#society

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism appears.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Where the state ceases—there begins the human being who is not superfluous: there begins the song of necessity, the unique and irreplaceable melody.

A city where the citizens obey the laws is happy in peace and invincible in war.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice is the principle of order in political society.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they still need friendship; and the highest form of justice seems to have the character of friendship.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

The ruin of a great nation begins in the neglected homes of its people.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The ego is not what you are. The ego is what the world thinks you are.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

A state arises out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

He who refuses to rule will be ruled by fools.

Do what is necessary, and whatever the reason of a social animal requires, and in the manner in which it requires.