Quotes about Society

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.