Art Quote by Alexis De Tocqueville

If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty,…

— Philip K. Howard

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

— George Orwell

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit…

— Santosh Kalwar

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as…

— Immanuel Kant

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents…

— Henry David Thoreau

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke