Religion is necessary wherever there is a settled society. The laws take care of known crimes; religion watches secret crime.[Par-tout où il y a une société établie , une religion est nécessaire ; les lois veillent sur les crimes commis , et la religion sur les crimes secrets.]
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us.
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent – people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
Society is much more easily soothed than one’s own conscience.
In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
