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Society Quotes by Victor Hugo
- I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
- Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
- If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in…
- Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of…
- It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
- Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the…
- Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!…
- Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the…
- This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal…
- The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in…
- But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi