The system reflects society. It’s not always fair, but it’s as fair as the system in New York, or Massachusetts, or California. It’s as fair as biased, emotional humans can make it.
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,- a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
The spirits of Truth and Freedom – these are the Pillars of Society.[Sandhedens og frihedens ånd, det er samfundets – støtter.]
The Soul selects her own Society – Then – shuts the Door – To her divine Majority – Present no more –
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.[La société de la production est seulement productrice, non créatrice.]
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up.
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
The needs of a society determine its ethics.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.[Das größte Problem für die Menschengattung, zu dessen Auflösung die Natur ihn zwingt, ist die Erreichung einer allgemein das Recht verwaltenden bürgerlichen Gesellschaft.]
The fact that society has become strong and sure of itself diminishes the external importance of the injury and so leads to a mitigation of its punishment.
