Calumny Quote by Heinrich Heine

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or…

— Victor Hugo

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few…

— William Hazlitt

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The security of society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the…

— Oscar Wilde

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few…

— William Hazlitt

“…the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired…

— Tom Robbins

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

— Samael Aun Weor

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation…

— Carl Jung

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic…

— Celia Green

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik