Active Quote by Elizabeth Carter

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net…

— Robert Hugh Benson

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be…

— George Santayana

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It…

— Jean Vanier

“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community

— Arthur Dobrin

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value…

— Erving Goffman

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image.…

— Linda Colley

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally…

— Milton Sapirstein

“Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in…

— Krishnamurti

Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in…

— Nicolas Chamfort