Quotes about modern society. Aphorisms about man and society
The unity of people with people, based on the real difference between people, the concept of the human race, transferred from the sky of abstraction to the real earth - what is this if not the concept of society!
K. Marx
Man is born for society.
D. Diderot
Man is made for society. He is unable and does not have the courage to live alone.
W. Blackstone
Man is by nature a herd animal. His actions are determined by the instinctive impulse to follow the leader and keep to the animals that surround him. To the extent that we are a herd, there is no greater danger to our existence than losing this contact with the herd and being alone.
E. Fromm
We are born to unite with our brothers - people and with the whole human race.
Cicero
“Movement is a way of existence of matter”, communication with their own kind is a way of existence of living beings.
Communication with their own kind is the elixir of life.
I. N. Shevelev
If everyone is the whole world,
Well one
Can't live without another.
L. I. Boleslavsky
There seems to be nothing to which nature would push us more than to friendly communication.
M. Montaigne
We need fellowship more than anything else.
D. M. Cage
Source of interests, goals and activities - substance public life.
V. G. Belinsky
A person becomes a person only among people.
I. Becher
Separate people unite into one whole - into society; and therefore the highest sphere of beauty is human society.
N. G. Chernyshevsky
The development of an individual is conditioned by the development of other individuals with whom he is in direct or indirect communication.
If you want to make an impact on other people, then you have to be a person who really stimulates and moves other people forward.
K. Marx
A person does not begin to live until he has risen above the narrow limits of his personal opinions and beliefs and has not joined the convictions of all mankind.
M. L. King
People's characters are defined and shaped by their relationships.
A. Morua
Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him.
V. G. Belinsky
Society is a capricious creature, disposed towards those who indulge its whims, and not at all towards those who contribute to its development.
V. G. Krotov
Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; the impulse degrades if it does not receive sympathy from the whole society.
W. James
Society consists of two classes of people: those who have dinner but no appetite; and those who have a great appetite, but no dinner.
N. Chamfort
A truly honest person should prefer family to himself, fatherland to family, mankind to fatherland.
J. D'Alembert
It is impossible to connect with birds and animals... If I had not joined the people, humanity, then who would I have to join?
Confucius
Of course, if you are going to live among people as if they were flies, then who will stop you from doing this?
Epictetus
You don't have to be the greatest genius to do great things; You don't need to be above people, you need to be with them.
C. Montesquieu
Breaking away from the people is like losing your mind.
Karak.
A person without people is like a body without a soul.
Uzbek
Loneliness is a test of oneself.
V. G. Krotov
You will never die with people.
Tatars.
...In society, every person is a pebble in a mosaic pattern.
N. Chamfort
...The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people.
H. Keller
There are people who, like a bridge, exist in order for others to run across it. And they run, they run; no one will look back, no one will look at their feet. And the bridge serves this, and the next, and the third generation.
V. V. Rozanov
Where there is unity, there is life.
Tatars.
Universal peace is as impossible as the stillness of the ocean.
P. Buast
The Spirit of the Whole requires communication. Therefore, he created less perfect beings for the sake of more perfect ones, and adapted the more perfect ones to each other.
It is easier to find something earthly, not in contact with anything earthly, than a person who is not in communion with a person.
M. Aurelius
Destroy society and you will destroy the unity of the human race - the unity that sustains life...
Seneca the Younger
... When a person seeks a society of his own kind, he only obeys the powerful voice of nature ...
T. Desami
... The feelings of a social person are other feelings than the feelings of a non-social person.
K. Marx
Man cannot live in solitude, he needs society.
I. Goethe
We all need each other: we are bound by this need to each other; from each comes a thread of relation to each other, and, in addition, a thread of relation to our common property ...
I. A. Ilyin
Only in people can a person know himself.
I. Goethe
Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God.
F. Bacon
In loneliness, a person is either a saint or a devil.
R. Burton
If people interfere with you, then you have no reason to live.
L. N. Tolstoy
Whom people do not like, he will not grow up.
Azerbaijan
A crooked tree straightens a planer, a bad person - the people.
Doug.
A person can do without many things, but not without a person.
C. L. Burne
Communication of any kind is so inherent in man at the core of his being that it always remains possible, and you can never know how deep it will reach ... readiness for communication is not a consequence of knowledge, but a decision to enter the path of human being. The idea of communication is not a utopia, but a belief.
K. Jaspers
Man exists only in society, and society forms him only for himself.
L. Bonald
In the soul of every person is a miniature portrait of his people.
G. Freitag
Seek joy and peace only in passing from social action to social action...
Do not be ashamed when they help; you have been assigned a task, as a fighter under a fortress wall. Well, what to do if, lame, you are not able to climb the tower alone, but together with another it is possible?
M. Aurelius
Human society... is like a surging sea, in which individual people, like waves, surrounded by their own kind, constantly collide with each other, arise, grow and disappear, and the sea - society - is forever seething, agitated and does not stop...
P. A. Sorokin
A living person carries in his spirit, in his heart, in his blood the life of society: he suffers from its ailments, is tormented by its sufferings, blooms with its health, blisses with its happiness...
V. G. Belinsky
... The eternal wisdom that governs the universe connects the self-interest of a being with the common good of his system, and in such a way that he cannot achieve one without sacrificing another, treat his neighbors badly without harming himself. In this sense, it can be said of a man that he is his own sworn enemy, since he holds his happiness in his hands, and that he can lose it only by losing sight of the happiness of society and all that he is a part of ...
D. Diderot
It can be said without exaggeration that a person's happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life.
“Man is made for society. He is not able and does not have the courage to live alone "W. Blackstone
“We are born to unite with our brothers - people and with the whole human race” Cicero
“Nature creates a person, but develops and forms his society” V. G. Belinsky
“Society is a capricious creature, disposed towards those who indulge its whims, and not at all towards those who contribute to its development” V. G. Krotov
“You don't have to be the greatest genius to do great things; you don’t need to be above people, you need to be with them ”Ch. Montesquieu
“A man without people is like a body without a soul. You will never die with people. ... The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people "H. Keller
“If people interfere with you, then you have no reason to live” L. N. Tolstoy
“It can be said without exaggeration that a person’s happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life” D. I. Pisarev
“There is no more bitter and humiliating dependence than dependence on the will of man, on the arbitrariness of equals” N. A. Berdyaev
“Thoughts of the best minds always eventually become the opinion of society” F. Chesterfield
“Don't rely on public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights ”A. Morois
“Every person is the center of the world, but it is everyone, and the world is valuable only because it is full of such centers” E. Canetti
“To be human means not only to have knowledge, but also to do for future generations what the previous ones did for us” G. Lichtenberg
"All roads lead to people" A. de Saint-Exupery
"People think of us what we want them to think"
T. Dreiser "The frivolous light mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory" A. S. Pushkin
"Man was created for society. He is not able and does not have the courage to live alone" W. Blackstone
"We are born to unite with our brothers - people and with the whole human race" Cicero
"We need fellowship more than anything else" D. M. Cage
"A person becomes a person only among people" I. Becher
"Individual people are united into one whole - into society; and therefore the highest sphere of beauty is human society" N. G. Chernyshevsky
"If you want to influence other people, then you must be a person who really stimulates and moves other people forward" K. Marx
"Man does not begin to live until he rises above the narrow limits of his personal opinions and beliefs and joins the beliefs of all mankind" M. L. King
"The characters of people are determined and shaped by their relationships" A. Morois
"Nature creates a person, but develops and forms his society" V. G. Belinsky
"Society is a capricious creature, disposed towards those who indulge its whims, and not at all towards those who contribute to its development" V. G. Krotov
"Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; impulse degrades if it does not receive sympathy from the whole society" W. James
"Society consists of two classes of people: those who have dinner, but no appetite; and those who have a great appetite, but no dinner" N. Chamfort
"To do great things, you do not need to be the greatest genius; you do not need to be above people, you need to be with them" C. Montesquieu
"To break away from the people is like losing your mind" Karak
A person without people is like a body without a soul. (proverb)
You will never die with people. (proverb)
"... The most beautiful life is a life lived for other people" H. Keller
"There are people who, like a bridge, exist in order for others to run across it. And they run, they run; no one will look back, will not look at their feet. And the bridge serves this, and the next, and the third generation" V.V. Rozanov
"Destroy society and you will destroy the unity of the human race - the unity that sustains life..." Seneca the Younger
"Man cannot live in solitude, he needs society" I. Goethe
"Only in people is a person capable of knowing himself" I. Goethe
"Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God" F. Bacon
"In solitude a man is either a saint or a devil" R. Burton
"If people interfere with you, then you have no reason to live" L. N. Tolstoy
"A person can do without much, but not without a person" C. L. Burne
"A person exists only in society, and society forms it only for itself" L. Bonald
"In the soul of every person there is a miniature portrait of his people" G. Freitag
"Human society... is like a surging sea, in which individual people, like waves, surrounded by their own kind, constantly collide with each other, arise, grow and disappear, and the sea - society - is forever seething, agitated and does not stop... "P. A. Sorokin
"A living person carries in his spirit, in his heart, in his blood the life of society: he suffers from its ailments, is tormented by its sufferings, blooms with its health, blisses with its happiness ..." V. G. Belinsky
"It can be said without exaggeration that a person's happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life. (D. I. Pisarev) Every person has something from all people" K. Lichtenberg
"Unite, people! Look: zero is nothing, but two zeros already mean something" S. E. Lets
Search together - find everything. (proverb)
Those who sail in a boat have only one fate. (proverb)
"Man is a being so flexible and in public life so receptive to the opinions of other people..." C. Montesquieu
He who fled from the people remains without burial. (proverb)
Among people, even a fox will not die of hunger. (proverb)
Man is the support of man. (proverb)
He who does not love his people does not love someone else. (proverb)
"Working for the people is the most urgent task" V. Hugo
"A person in society must grow according to his nature, be himself and the only one, as on a tree each leaf differs from the other. But in each leaf there is something in common with others, and this community runs through the knots, vessels and forms the power of the trunk and the unity of everything tree" M. M. Prishvin
“No matter how rich and luxurious the inner life of a person is, no matter how hot the spring it beats outward and no matter what waves it pours over the edge, it is not complete if it does not assimilate into its content the interests of the external world, society and humanity” V. G. Belinsky
"Man was created to live in society; separate him from him, isolate him - his thoughts will become confused, his character will harden, hundreds of absurd passions will arise in his soul, extravagant ideas will sprout in his brain, like a wild thorn bush in a wasteland" D. Diderot
"To be a man means not only to have knowledge, but also to do for future generations what the previous ones did for us" G. Lichtenberg
"Each person is a separate, definite personality, which will not be a second time. People differ in the very essence of the soul; their similarity is only external. The more one becomes by himself, the deeper he begins to understand himself - his original features come through more clearly" V.Ya. Bryusov
"People are born for each other" M. Avreliy
"The best among people is the one who benefits others the most." Jami
"Man is a wolf to man" Plautus
"There are two opposite principles in human nature: self-love, which attracts us to ourselves, and virtue, pushing us to others. If one of these springs broke, a person would be angry to the point of rage or magnanimous to madness" D. Diderot
"We can bring salvation to mankind only by our own good behavior; otherwise we will rush like a fatal comet, leaving devastation and death everywhere" E. Rotterdam
"The earthly purpose of a person is to be reasonable and brave, free, wealthy and happy ... Humanists must be implacable and raise arms whenever hostile forces want to prevent the appointment of a person" G. Mann
Wherever you find yourself, people will always be no more stupid than you. (D. Diderot)
Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything. (F. M. Dostoevsky)
A person loves society, even if it is the society of a lonely burning candle. (G. Lichtenberg)
No society can be worse than the people that make it up. (W. Schwebel)
Society is like air: it is necessary for breathing, but not enough for life. (D. Santayana)
All societies are similar to each other like cows in a herd, only some have gilded horns. (W. Schwebel)
Society is a set of stones that would collapse if one did not support the other. (L. A. Seneca)
Terror has not invented any other means to equalize society, but to cut off the heads that rise above the level of mediocrity. (P. Buast)
Society is always in a conspiracy against man. Conformity is considered a virtue; self-confidence is a sin. Society loves not a person and life, but names and customs. (R. Emerson)
It is impossible to live in society and be free from society. (V.I. Lenin)
Society cannot free itself without freeing every individual. (F. Engels)
Society is to blame for everything that happens within it; every wretched individual, by the very fact of his existence, points to some defect in the social organization. (D.I. Pisarev)
There is nothing more dangerous in society than a person without character. (J. D "Alamber)
Two or three is already a Society. One will become God, the other the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will hang under the crossbar. (T. Carlyle)
Public opinion cannot but be banal. (K. Kushner)
Inequality humiliates people and instills discord and hatred among them. (G. Mably)
Punishment is nothing but a means of self-defense of society against violations of the conditions of its existence. (K. Marx)
Society, others diminish the soul, but do not add. "Adds" only the closest and rare sympathy, "soul to soul" and "one mind." You find one or two of them in a lifetime. Their soul blossoms. And look for her. And the crowds run or carefully bypass it. (V. V. Rozanov)
You can always recognize yourself in every person and his actions. (L. N. Tolstoy)
Because of the isolated way of life that we lead, few of us are well acquainted with human nature. (A. Adler)
Loneliness is the refuge of the strong. The weak always huddle in the crowd.... There is no more bitter and humiliating dependence than dependence on the will of man, on the arbitrariness of his equals. (N. A. Berdyaev)
The thoughts of the best minds always eventually become the opinion of society. (F. Chesterfield)
"You should not be guided by public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights" A. Morois
"Every person is the center of the world, but it is everyone, and the world is valuable only because it is full of such centers" E. Canetti
"Any weakening of mental life in society inevitably entails an increase in material inclinations and vile egoistic instincts" F.I. Tyutchev
"The public is a weak-willed and helpless consumer of what it is supplied with" J. Galsworthy
"Everyone talks about public opinion and acts on behalf of public opinion, that is, on behalf of the opinion of everyone minus his own" G. Chesterton
"Anyone who tries to get out of the common herd becomes a public enemy. Why, pray tell?" F. Petrarch
"No matter how selfish a person may seem, certain laws are clearly laid down in his nature, forcing him to be interested in the fate of others and consider their happiness necessary for himself, although he himself does not get anything from this, except for the pleasure of seeing this happiness" A. Smith
"The vast majority of people ... are not able to think for themselves, but only believe, and ... are not able to obey reason, but only power" A. Schopenhauer
"A person outside of society is either a god or a beast" Aristotle
"All roads lead to people" A. de Saint-Exupery
"A nation is truly great not when it consists of a large number of thinking, free and energetic people, but when thought, freedom and energy are subordinated to an ideal higher than that of the average member of society" M. Arnold
"You can not be sure of either your behavior or your well-being when we make it dependent on people's opinions" A. de Stael
"It doesn't matter who is in front of you: a crowd of academics or a crowd of water carriers. Both are a crowd" G. Lebon
"I never said:" I want to be alone. "I just said:" I want to be left alone, "and this is not the same" G. Garbo
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Final essay on literature 2018. Theme of the final essay on literature. "Human and society".
FIPI comment: "For the topics of this direction, the view of a person as a representative of society is relevant. Society largely forms a person, but a person can also influence society. The topics will allow us to consider the problem of the individual and society from different angles: from the point of view of their harmonious interaction, complex confrontation or irreconcilable conflict.It is equally important to think about the conditions under which a person must submit to public laws and society - to take into account the interests of each person. Literature has always shown interest in the problem of the relationship between man and society, the creative or destructive consequences of this interaction for the individual and for human civilization.
So, let's try to figure out from what positions these two concepts can be considered.
1. Personality and society (in agreement or in opposition). Within the framework of this subsection, you can talk about the following topics: Man as part of society. The impossibility of human existence outside of society. Independence of judgment of a single individual. The influence of society on a person's decisions, the influence of public opinion on a person's tastes, his position in life. Confrontation or conflict between society and the individual. The desire of a person to become special, original. Contrasting the interests of the individual and the interests of society. The ability to devote one's life to the interests of society, philanthropy and misanthropy. The influence of the individual on society. The place of man in society. The relationship of a person to society, his own kind.
2. Social norms and laws, morality. The responsibility of a person to society and society to a person for everything that happens and the future. The decision of a person to accept or reject the laws of the society in which he lives, to follow the rules or break the laws.
3. Man and society in the historical, state plan. The role of personality in history. Relationship between time and society. The evolution of society.
4.Man and society in a totalitarian state. Erasure of individuality in society. Society's indifference to its future and a bright personality capable of fighting the system. Contrasting "crowd" and "individual" in a totalitarian regime. Diseases of society. Alcoholism, drug addiction, intolerance, cruelty and crime
HUMAN- a term used in two main senses: biological and social. In a biological sense, a person is a representative of the species Homo sapiens, a family of hominids, a detachment of primates, a class of mammals - the highest stage in the development of organic life on Earth.
In a social sense Man is a creature that has arisen in a team, reproduces and develops in a team. Historically established norms of law, morality, everyday life, rules of thought and language, aesthetic tastes, etc. form the behavior and mind of a person, make an individual a representative of a certain way of life, culture and psychology. Man is an elementary unit various groups and communities, including ethnic groups, states, etc., where he acts as a person. The “human rights” recognized in international organizations and in the legislation of states are, first of all, the rights of the individual.
Synonyms: face, person, person, persona, individual, individuality, soul, unit, two-legged, human being, individual, king of nature, someone, work unit.
SOCIETY- in a broad sense - a large group of people united by some common goal with stable social boundaries. The term society can be applied to all mankind (human society), to the historical stage of development of all mankind or its individual parts (slave-owning society, feudal society, etc. (see Socio-economic formation), to the inhabitants of the state (American society, Russian society, etc.) and to individual organizations of people (sports society, geographical society, etc.).
Sociological conceptions of society differed primarily in the interpretation of the nature of the compatibility of human existence, the explanation of the principle of the formation of social ties. O. Comte saw such a principle in the division of functions (labor) and in solidarity, E. Durkheim - in cultural artifacts, which he called "collective representations". M. Weber called mutually oriented, i.e. social, actions of people as a unifying principle. Structural functionalism considered social norms and values to be the basis of the social system. K. Marx and F. Engels considered the development of society as a natural-historical process of changing socio-economic formations, which are based on a certain way of people's production activities. Its specificity is determined by production relations that do not depend on people's consciousness and correspond to the achieved level of productive forces. On the basis of these objective, material relations, systems of corresponding social and political institutions, ideological relations, and forms of consciousness are built up. Thanks to this understanding, each socio-economic formation appears as an integral concrete historical social organism, characterized by its economic and social structure, value-normative system of social regulation, features and spiritual life.
The current stage of the development of society is characterized by the growth of integration processes against the background of an increasing variety of economic, political and ideological forms. Scientific, technical and social progress, having resolved some contradictions, gave rise to others, even more acute, put human civilization in front of global problems, the solution of which depends on the very existence of society, the path of its further development.
Synonyms: society, people, community, herd; crowd; public, environment, environment, audience, humanity, light, human race, human race, brotherhood, brethren, gang, group.
Quotes for the final essay 2018 in the direction "Man and Society".
People think of us what we want them to think. T. Dreiser
Frivolous light mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory. (A.S. Pushkin)
Man is made for society. He is unable and does not have the courage to live alone. (W. Blackstone)
We are born to unite with our brothers - people and with the whole human race (Cicero)
We need fellowship more than anything else. (D.M. Cage)
A person becomes a person only among people. (I. Becher)
Separate people unite into one whole - into society; and therefore the highest sphere of beauty is human society. (N. G. Chernyshevsky)
If you want to make an impact on other people, then you have to be a person who really stimulates and moves other people forward. (K. Marx)
A person does not begin to live until he has risen above the narrow limits of his personal opinions and beliefs and has not joined the convictions of all mankind. (M. L. King)
People's characters are defined and shaped by their relationships. (A. Morua)
Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him. (V. G. Belinsky)
Society is a capricious creature, disposed towards those who indulge its whims, and not at all towards those who contribute to its development. (V. G. Krotov)
Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; the impulse degrades if it does not receive sympathy from the whole society. (W. James)
Society consists of two classes of people: those who have dinner but no appetite; and those who have a great appetite, but no dinner. (N. Chamfort)
A truly honest person should prefer family to himself, fatherland to family, mankind to fatherland. (J. D'Alembert)
You don't have to be the greatest genius to do great things; You don't need to be above people, you need to be with them. (Ch. Montesquieu)
Breaking away from the people is like losing your mind. (Karak)
A person without people is like a body without a soul.
You will never die with people.
The most beautiful life is the life lived for other people. (H. Keller)
There are people who, like a bridge, exist in order for others to run across it. And they run, they run; no one will look back, no one will look at their feet. And the bridge serves this, and the next, and the third generation. (V. V. Rozanov)
Destroy society and you will destroy the unity of the human race - the unity that sustains life... (Seneca the Younger)
Man cannot live in solitude, he needs society. (I. Goethe)
Only in people can a person know himself. (I. Goethe)
Anyone who loves loneliness is either a wild beast or the Lord God. (F. Bacon)
In loneliness, a person is either a saint or a devil. (R. Burton)
If people interfere with you, then you have no reason to live. (L. N. Tolstoy)
A person can do without many things, but not without a person. (C. L. Burne)
Man exists only in society, and society forms him only for himself.
(L. Bonald
In the soul of every person is a miniature portrait of his people. (G. Freytag)
Human society... is like a tossing sea in which individuals, like waves,
surrounded by their own kind, constantly collide with each other, arise, grow and disappear, and the sea - society - is always seething, worried and does not stop ... (P. A. Sorokin)
A living person carries in his spirit, in his heart, in his blood the life of society: he suffers from its ailments, is tormented by its sufferings, blooms with its health, blisses with its happiness ... (V. G. Belinsky)
It can be said without exaggeration that a person's happiness depends solely on the characteristics of his social life. (D.I. Pisarev)
In every person there is something from all people. (K. Lichtenberg)
Unite people! Look: zero is nothing, but two zeros already mean something. (S. E. Lets)
Search together - find everything.
Those who sail in a boat have only one fate.
Man is a creature so flexible and in social life so receptive to the opinions of other people ... (Ch. Montesquieu)
He who fled from the people remains without burial.
Among people, even a fox will not die of hunger.
Man is the support of man.
He who does not love his people does not love someone else.
Working for the people is the most urgent task. (V. Hugo)
A person in society must grow according to his nature, be himself and the only one, as on a tree each leaf is different from the other. But in each leaf there is something in common with others, and this commonality runs through the knots, vessels and forms the power of the trunk and the unity of the whole tree. (M. M. Prishvin)
No matter how rich and luxurious the inner life of a person may be, no matter how hot it beats into
outside, and no matter what waves it overflows, it is not complete if it does not assimilate into its content the interests of the external world, society and humanity. (V. G. Belinsky)
Man is created to live in society; separate him from him, isolate him - his thoughts will become confused, his character will become hardened, hundreds of absurd passions will arise in his soul, extravagant ideas will sprout in his brain like wild thorns in a wasteland. (D. Diderot)
To be human means not only to have knowledge, but also to do for future generations what the previous ones did for us. (G. Lichtenberg)
Each person is a separate, definite personality, which will not be a second time. People differ in the very essence of the soul; their resemblance is only superficial. The more one becomes himself, the deeper he begins to understand himself, - his original features come through more clearly. (V.Ya. Bryusov)
People are born for each other. (M. Aurelius)
The best among people is the one who benefits others the most. (Jami)
Man to man is a wolf. (Plavt)
There are two opposite principles in human nature: pride, which draws us to ourselves, and virtue, which pushes us to others. If one of these springs broke, the person would be angry to the point of madness or magnanimous to the point of insanity. (D. Diderot)
We can bring salvation to mankind only by our own good behavior; otherwise we will rush like a fatal comet, leaving desolation and death everywhere in our wake. (E. Rotterdam)
The earthly purpose of a person is to be reasonable and brave, free, wealthy and happy ...
Humanists need to be implacable and take up arms whenever hostile forces want to prevent the appointment of a person. (G. Mann)
Wherever you find yourself, people will always be no more stupid than you. (D. Diderot)
Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything. (F. M. Dostoevsky)
A person loves society, even if it is the society of a lonely burning candle. (G. Lichtenberg)
No society can be worse than the people that make it up. (W. Schwebel)
Society is like air: it is necessary for breathing, but not enough for life. (D. Santayana)
All societies are similar to each other like cows in a herd, only some have gilded horns. (W. Schwebel)
Society is a set of stones that would collapse if one did not support the other. (L. A. Seneca)
Terror has not invented any other means to equalize society, but to cut off the heads that rise above the level of mediocrity. (P. Buast)
Society is always in a conspiracy against man. Conformity is considered a virtue; self-confidence is a sin. Society loves not a person and life, but names and customs. (R. Emerson)
It is impossible to live in society and be free from society. (V.I. Lenin)
It is common for every generation to consider itself called to remake the world. (A. Camus)
Society cannot free itself without freeing every individual. (F. Engels)
Anyone who tries to get out of the common herd becomes a public enemy. Why, pray tell? (F. Petrarch)
No matter how selfish a person may seem, certain laws are clearly laid down in his nature, forcing him to be interested in the fate of others and consider their happiness necessary for himself, although he himself does not receive anything from this, except for the pleasure of seeing this happiness. (A. Smith)
The vast majority of people ... are not able to think for themselves, but only to believe, and ... are not able to obey reason, but only power. (A. Schopenhauer)
It doesn't matter who is in front of you: a crowd of academics or a crowd of water carriers. Both are a crowd. (G. Lebon)
I never said, "I want to be alone." I just said, "I want to be left alone," which is not the same. (G. Garbo)
Only science will change the world. Science in the broad sense: both how to split the atom and how to educate people. And adults too. N. M. Amosov
Just as those who eat a lot are not healthier than those who eat only the most necessary things, so the true scientists are not those who read a lot, but those who read useful things. Aristippus
He who advances in the sciences, but lags behind in morality, goes more backward than forward. Aristotle
The task of scientists is not only to develop scientific research, but also to fight for their use for the benefit of society, for the benefit of all the people of the world. I. I. Artobolevsky
A true scientist is a dreamer, and whoever is not one calls himself a practitioner. O. Balzac
The key to all science is the question mark. O. Balzac
The student will never surpass the teacher if he sees in him a model, and not a rival. V. G. Belinsky
Science is not the subject of pure thinking, but the subject of thinking, constantly drawn into practice and constantly reinforced by practice. That is why science cannot be studied in isolation from technology. D. Bernal
When a fact comes across that contradicts the prevailing theory, one must accept the fact and reject the theory, even if it is supported by big names and accepted by everyone. C. Bernard
A certain scientist is like a bank teller: he has the keys to great wealth, but this wealth does not belong to him. L. Burne
The main duty of a scientist is not to try to prove the infallibility of his opinions, but to be always ready to abandon any view that seems unproven, from any experience that turns out to be erroneous. P. Berthelot
Science is the best way to make the human spirit heroic. D. Bruno
The limits of the sciences are like the horizon: the closer one approaches them, the more they move back. P. Buast
Science is an ocean open to both boat and frigate. One carries gold bars along it, the other fishes herring in it. E. Bulwer-Lytton
Morality should be the polar star of science. S. Buffler
The true and legitimate aim of all sciences is to endow human life with new inventions and riches. F. Bacon
Science is nothing but a reflection of reality. F. Bacon
Facts are in science what experience is in social life. J. Buffon
When science reaches a peak, it opens up a vast prospect of a further path to new peaks, new roads are opened along which science will go further. S. I. Vavilov
Science has its own specific logic of development, which is very important to take into account. Science must always work in reserve, for the future, and only under this condition will it be in its natural conditions. S. I. Vavilov
You can't be a real mathematician without being a bit of a poet. K. Weierstrass
A scientific hypothesis always goes beyond the facts that served as the basis for its construction. V. I. Vernadsky
The scientific outlook, imbued with natural science and mathematics, is the greatest force not only of the present, but also of the future. V. I. Vernadsky
One minute is enough to be surprised; it takes many years to do an amazing thing. K. Helvetius
In science there is no other way of acquisition than by the sweat of one's brow; neither impulses, nor fantasies, nor aspirations with all one's heart can replace labor. A. I. Herzen
Science is power; it reveals the relations of things, their laws and interactions. A. I. Herzen
Science requires the whole person, without ulterior motives, with the readiness to give everything and receive the heavy cross of sober knowledge as a reward. A. I. Herzen
There are no hard sciences, only difficult expositions. A. I. Herzen
We cannot have a science disconnected from life: this is contrary to our character. A. I. Herzen
Hypotheses are scaffolding that is erected in front of a building and demolished when the building is ready; they are necessary for the worker; he must not only mistake scaffolding for a building. I. Goethe
In order for any science to move forward, in order for its extension to become more perfect, hypotheses are necessary just as evidence of experience and observation. I. Goethe
A person must believe that the incomprehensible can be understood. I. Goethe
What is in the air and what time demands can arise simultaneously in a hundred heads without any borrowing. I. Goethe
In science it is necessary to believe and doubt at the same time. L. Hirshfeld
The scientist's right is freedom, and his duty is truthfulness. L. Hirshfeld
Science is becoming the nervous system of our age. M. Gorky
Labor and science - there is nothing on earth higher than these two forces. M. Gorky
The work of a scientist is the property of all mankind, and science is the area of greatest disinterestedness. M. Gorky
People have no power more powerful and victorious than science. M. Gorky
True science knows neither likes nor dislikes: its only goal is truth. W. Grove
Moving forward, science incessantly crosses itself out. V. Hugo
Science consists in grouping facts in such a way that it is possible to derive general laws or conclusions from them. C. Darwin
As a rule, not those who know a lot, but those who know little, always declare more confidently that this or that problem will never be solved by science. C. Darwin
The aim of scientific pursuits should be to direct the mind in such a way that it makes firm and true judgments about all the subjects encountered. R. Descartes
Nature is the best and most objective teacher in solving the most difficult questions of science. V. V. Dokuchaev
Every great success of science has its origin in a great audacity of the imagination. D. Dewey
In any profession, love for it is one of the conditions for success, but this is especially true for research work. I. Joliot-Curie
Maybe we owe science more than any other species. human activity, the emergence of a sense of the need for collective efforts. F. Joliot-Curie
Science is necessary for the people. A country that does not develop it inevitably turns into a colony. F. Joliot-Curie
Science opens up grandiose prospects for those who serve it. F. Joliot-Curie
The Teaching has no right to consider itself a handful of the elect, alien to the tasks of practical life. As members great family working people, they should be concerned about how their discoveries are being used. They want science to be put at the service of the people. F. Joliot-Curie
The time will come when science will outstrip fantasy. Jules Verne
The great poetry of our century is a science with an amazing flourishing of its discoveries, its conquest of matter, inspiring man to multiply his activity tenfold. E. Zola
Honesty in science is inseparable from honesty in life, and whoever sees in science one cash cow for himself is not an honest servant, but an industrialist who converts bright name science in commercial fishery. F. N. Inozemtsev
The beginning of science is reason, the beginning of reason is patience. E. Kapiev
We can find a thousand scientists until we come across one sage. F. Klinger
Science is often confused with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not only knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the ability to use knowledge properly. V. O. Klyuchevsky
The abuse of scientific language turns into a science of words what should be a science of facts. J. Condorcet
There are no barriers to human thought. S. P. Korolev
Science is a huge treasury of knowledge accumulated by mankind. N. K. Krupskaya
Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries. I. V. Kurchatov
Science is made up of knowledge logically connected into a system and imbued with an idea. M. S. Kutorga
The system of sciences must be considered as a system of nature: everything in it is infinite and everything is necessary. J. Cuvier
A scientist devoid of imagination can become a good walking library and a living reference book - he assimilates, but does not create. F. Yu. Levinson-Lessing
We need science to really enter into flesh and blood, turn into an integral element of everyday life in a completely and real way. V. I. Lenin
Cooperation between representatives of science and workers - only such cooperation will be able to destroy the entire oppression of poverty, disease, dirt. And it will be done. Before the union of the representatives of science, the proletariat and technology, no dark force. V. I. Lenin
There is no certainty in the sciences where none of the mathematical sciences can be applied, and in that which has no connection with mathematics. Leonardo da Vinci
The source of all science is experience. Every experience is a thought, which with its help becomes accessible to the senses. Y. Liebig
Reason and imagination are equally necessary for our knowledge and are equal in science. Y. Liebig
Science cannot be wrong about things, it can only be wrong about understanding things. W. Liebknecht
In the cage of bureaucracy, science cannot move forward. K. Liebknecht
The word "scientist" sometimes contains only the notion that a person has been taught a lot, but not that he himself has learned something. G. Lichtenberg
Where there used to be the boundaries of science, there is now its center. G. Lichtenberg
A scientist must follow unbeaten paths, in spite of obstacles. N. I. Lobachevsky
For the common good, and especially for the establishment of science in the Fatherland, and against my own father, I do not set up a rebellion for sin. M. V. Lomonosov
Science is a clear knowledge of the truth, enlightenment of the mind, immaculate amusement of life, praise of youth, old age, a support, a builder of cities, regiments, a fortress of success in misfortune, an ornament in happiness, a faithful and unceasing companion everywhere. M. V. Lomonosov
I value one experience more than a thousand opinions born of the imagination alone. M. V. Lomonosov
In science there is no wide high road, and only he can reach its shining heights who, without fear of fatigue, climbs along its rocky paths. K. Marx
Every scientific work, every discovery, every invention is universal labor. It is determined partly by the cooperation of contemporaries, partly by the use of the labor of predecessors. K. Marx
Every beginning is difficult - this truth is true for every science. K. Marx
Science is not a selfish pleasure at all. Those lucky ones who can devote themselves to scientific tasks should themselves be the first to give their knowledge to the service of mankind. K. Marx
Scientific truths are always paradoxical, if judged on the basis of everyday experience, which catches only the deceptive appearance of things. K. Marx
The manufacturing process can be turned into a technological application of science. K. Marx
The development of science, of this ideal and at the same time practical wealth, is only one of the aspects, one of the forms in which the development of man's productive forces, i.e., the development of wealth, appears. K. Marx
Teachings, if he does not want to lower his level himself, should never interrupt his active participation in public life and should not sit forever locked up in his office or in his laboratory, like a rat that has climbed into cheese without interfering in life, in public and political struggle of his contemporaries. K. Marx
Hypotheses facilitate and make right scientific work- the search for truth, like a farmer's plow, facilitates the cultivation of useful plants. D. I. Mendeleev
Borders scientific knowledge and it is impossible to predict. D. I. Mendeleev
Science is a common property, and therefore justice requires not to give the greatest scientific glory to the one who was the first to express a known truth, but to the one who managed to convince others of it, showed its authenticity and made it applicable in science. D. I. Mendeleev
The role of the sciences is auxiliary, they constitute a means for achieving the good. D. I. Mendeleev
Striving to know the infinite, science itself has no end and, being universal, in reality inevitably acquires a national character. D. I. Mendeleev
The characteristic feature of science is precisely that it requires strong activity. I. I. Mechnikov
Man, with the help of science, is able to correct the imperfection of his nature. I. I. Mechnikov
True scientists are like ears of corn in a field. While the ear is empty, it grows merrily and proudly raises its head; but when it swells, fills with grain, and ripens, it is imbued with humility and lowers its head. M. Montaigne
Book learning is an ornament, not a foundation. M. Montaigne
For those who have not comprehended the science of good, any other science brings only harm. M. Montaigne
There is no science for science, there is no art for art - they all exist for society, for the ennoblement, for the elevation of man, for his enrichment with knowledge and the material comforts of life. N. A. Nekrasov
If I have seen further than others, it is only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. I. Newton
My faith is the belief that the progress of science will bring happiness to humanity. I. P. Pavlov
Science demands from man his whole life. And if you had two lives, then they would not be enough for you. Science demands great tension and great passion from man. I. P. Pavlov
The field of research of all sciences is boundless. B. Pascal
Random discoveries are made only by trained minds. B. Pascal
The cult of science in high sense this word is perhaps even more necessary for the moral than for the material prosperity of a nation. Science raises the intellectual and moral level; science contributes to the dissemination and triumph of great ideas. L. Pasteur
Science should be the most exalted embodiment of the fatherland, for of all peoples the first will always be the one that outstrips others in the field of thought and mental activity. L. Pasteur
The progress of science is determined by the work of its scientists and the value of their discoveries. L. Pasteur
Where the spirit of science reigns, great things are done with small means. N. I. Pirogov
A one-sided specialist is either a crude empiricist or a learned charlatan. N. I. Pirogov
The greatness and dignity of science lies solely in the benefit that it brings to people, increasing the productivity of their labor and strengthening the natural forces of their minds. D. I. Pisarev
Between science and life there is a very close, inseparable, and for none of them in the least humiliating connection: the more science serves life, the more life enriches science. G. V. Plekhanov
Where science stands high, man stands high. A. I. Polezhaev
Science is built from facts, as a house is built from bricks; however, a heap of facts is not a science, just as a pile of bricks is not a house. A. Poincare
Science is a collective creation and cannot be anything else; it is like a monumental building that takes centuries to build, and where everyone has to bring a stone, and this stone often costs him a lifetime. A. Poincare
Freedom is to science what air is to a living being. A. Poincare
The dignity of art and the dignity of science in selfless service for the benefit of people. D. Reskin
The blankets of true science and true art are the fruits of sacrifice, not of material gain. R. Rolland
Modern great scientists are true poets. R. Rolland
A thousand times higher should be put people who know how to act fruitfully even without diplomas than people who are inactive, but with diplomas. N. A. Rubakin
Science is constant recognition, not only discovery, but discovery. N. A. Rubakin
Two people worked fruitlessly and tried in vain: the one who accumulated wealth and did not use it, and the one who studied the sciences, but did not apply them. Saadi
A scholar without labor is a tree without fruit. Saadi
Science is the basis of all progress that makes life easier for mankind and reduces its suffering. M. Sklodowska-Curie
What could be more harmful than a person who has knowledge of the most complex sciences, but does not have a good heart? He uses all his knowledge for evil. G. S. Skovoroda
A scientist must be absolutely honest in everything. The slightest deviation from this quality is the gravest crime. K. I. Skryabin
Science is organized knowledge. G. Spencer
The generally accepted opinion that science and poetry are two opposites is a great delusion. On the contrary, science reveals to us the whole world of poetry. People who have devoted themselves to scientific research constantly prove to us that they not only perceive the poetry of the subjects they study, just like other people, but even more vividly than they do. G. Spencer
The task of a scientist is to walk closely with his people, to raise them in an imperceptibly winding spiral to the difficult steepness of truth. V. V. Stasov
The chosen ones engaged in science should look at knowledge as a treasure entrusted to them, which is the property of the whole people. K. A. Timiryazev
Science is the best, strongest, brightest support in life, whatever its vicissitudes. K. A. Timiryazev
With the complete elimination of the hypothesis, that is, the guiding thought, science would turn into a heap of bare facts. K. A. Timiryazev
Only science teaches how to extract truth from its only primary source - from reality. K. A. Timiryazev
The business of science is to serve people. L. N. Tolstoy
Scientific and artistic activity in its true sense is only fruitful when it does not know rights, but knows only duties. L. N. Tolstoy
The task of science should be to know what should be, not what is. L. N. Tolstoy
Science and art are just as necessary for people as food and drink and clothing, even more necessary.
Recognition can be recognized. and prove it only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace and well-being in order to give himself up to his vocation. L. N. Tolstoy
The goal of scientific thinking is to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transient. A. Whitehead
In the sciences, the most reliable help is one's own eyes, reflection. J. Fabre
Science wins when fantasy unfetters its wings. M. Faraday
Discoveries are born where the knowledge of the teacher ends and the new knowledge of the student begins.
A true scientist cannot be modest: the more he has done, the more clearly he sees how much remains to be done. A. France
To neglect the possibility of using scientific data in public life is to belittle the importance of science. Science helps us in the fight against fanaticism in all its manifestations; it helps us create our own ideal of justice without borrowing anything from faulty systems and barbaric traditions. A. France
Scientists very often differ from normal mortals in their ability to delight in verbose and complex delusions. A. France
A scientist already in his early youth must come to terms with the idea that very little is destined to know about the world around him. A. France
He who flaunts erudition or learning has neither. E. Hemingway
Science has an extremely tangible, so to speak, grain importance. K. E. Tsiolkovsky
One of the greatest scourges of civilization is the learned fool. K. Capek
Science preserves the fruits of the experience and reflections of the human race, and most importantly, on the basis of science, concepts are improved, and then the morals and life of people. B. Show
Poor is the scientist who has read about everything in the world and only remembers what he read. G. Shaw
There is always an element of poetry in scientific thinking. Real science and real music require a uniform thought process. A. Einstein
Science is a tireless centuries-old work of thought: to bring together through a system all the knowable phenomena of our world. A. Einstein
Science is not and never will be a finished book. Each important success brings new questions, each development reveals in the course of time new and deeper difficulties.
LENIN (Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich
Inequality naturally leads to the materialization of the upper class, the vulgarization of the middle class, and the brutalization of the lower class.
ARNOLD Matthew
No woman is as windy and fickle as public opinion.
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The smaller the gear, the more it has to turn.
ZHUKOV Alexander Nikolaevich
The first problem of parents is to teach their children how to behave in polite society; the second is to find this decent society.
Robert Orben
Everything depends on the environment. The sun in the sky does not have such a high opinion of itself as a candle lit in a cellar.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
The sheep and the wolf understand the word “freedom” differently, and this is the essence of the disagreements that prevail in human society.
Abraham Lincoln
Society, others diminish the soul, but do not add. "Adds" only the closest and rare sympathy, "soul to soul" and "one mind." You find one or two of them in a lifetime. Their soul blossoms. And look for her. And the crowds run or carefully bypass it.
Vasily Rozanov
Being in society is just boring. And being out of society is already a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
Society often forgives the offender. But not a dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
Public opinion rules people.
Blaise Pascal
Every society first of all requires mutual adaptation and humiliation, and therefore, the larger it is, the more vulgar. Each person can be completely himself only while he is alone. Therefore, whoever does not love loneliness also does not love freedom, for a person is free only when he is alone. Coercion is an inseparable companion of every society; every society requires sacrifices, which are the harder, the more significant one's own personality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is impossible to live in society and be free from society.
Vladimir Lenin
The Creator, having bestowed elbows on man, adapted him to life in society.
Alexander Kumor
I do not want a society where I could not do evil, but such a society that I could do any evil, but did not want to do it myself.
Victor Hugo
Humanity will always punish those few who have a special gift that the rest do not have, and therefore they will never recognize it as real.
Chuck Palahniuk
Don't rely on public opinion. This is not a lighthouse, but wandering lights.
André Maurois
It has already been noted more than once that those who study physics, natural history, physiology or chemistry are usually distinguished by a mild, balanced and, as a rule, cheerful disposition, while the authors of essays on politics, jurisprudence, and even morality are gloomy people prone to melancholy, etc. This is explained simply: the first study nature, the second - society;
the former contemplate the creations of the great creator, the latter peer into the work of man. The consequences cannot but be different.
Antoine Rivarol
Man is inconceivable outside of society.
Lev Tolstoy
Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again such as it once was and, surely, will someday be again.
Mikhail Lermontov
People come to the cinema to share the same dream.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him.
Vissarion Belinsky
The more a society develops, the more it itself begins to secrete a poison that causes it to produce antibodies.
Bernard Werber
Learning to behave in society is as painful as learning to skate. The only way to survive shame is to laugh at yourself along with everyone else.
George Shaw
There is no person who would be like an Island, in itself, each person is a part of the Mainland, a part of the Land; and if the Wave blows the coastal Cliff into the sea, Europe will become smaller, and also if it washes away the edge of the Cape and destroys your Castle and your Friend; the death of each Human reduces me too, for I am one with all Humanity, and therefore never ask for whom the Bell tolls: it tolls for You.
John Donn
Man does not create society by means of a free contract: he is born in the depths of society, and outside of society he could not live like a man, nor even become a man, nor think, nor speak, nor want, nor act rationally. In view of the fact that society forms and determines his human essence, man is in the same absolute dependence on society as on physical nature itself, and there is no such great genius who would be completely free from the influence of society.
Mikhail Bakunin
Man is a weak animal being at his birth and by nature, thereby put in need of rapprochement with his own kind, in combination with them acquires huge forces, constantly growing, as a result of which peoples draw closer to peoples, people crowd more and more, and all of humanity strives to unite into one whole - and in this way man decisively differs from all animals in general and from the rooster in particular.
Ivan Yakushkin
Freedom can only be saved through brotherhood.
Victor Hugo
We are happier in solitude than in society. And is it not because alone with ourselves we think about inanimate objects, but among people - about people?
Nicola Chamfort
Whoever wishes to fight alone against the public interest must know that he will perish.
Marquis Garden
Too much dignity sometimes makes a person unfit for society: they don’t go to the market with gold bars - they need a bargaining chip, especially a trifle.
Nicola Chamfort
Family interests almost always destroy public interests.
Francis Bacon
The last word always remains with public opinion.
Napoleon I
Learn to descend to the level of those among whom you are.
Philip Chesterfield
In any society, ordinary people must live in defiance of the existing order of things.
George Orwell
Communication ennobles and elevates, in society a person involuntarily, without any pretense, behaves differently than in solitude.
Ludwig Feuerbach
No science can form a society if there is no noble material, a living and good will, to live honestly and lovingly. Science will point out the benefits and prove only that it is honest.
Fedor Dostoevsky
Man is created to live in society; separate him from him, isolate him - and his thoughts will become confused, his character will become hardened, hundreds of absurd passions will spring up in his soul, extravagant ideas will sprout in his brain like wild thorns in a wasteland.
Denis Diderot
Removal from society is necessary for public truth.
Fedor Dostoevsky
Social solidarity is the first human law, freedom is the second law of society. Both of these laws complement each other and, being inseparable from one another, constitute the essence of humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
We cannot ignore the contempt of others: we have too little pride.
Luc Vauvenargue
A healthy society will endure even unhealthy criticism.
Hot Petan
Unite people! Look: zero is nothing, but two zeros already mean something.
Stanislav Lets
An individual is weak, like an abandoned Robinson: only in community with others can he do much.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Kings and servants are called only by their first names, not their last names. These are the two extreme steps of the social ladder.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as a person can be recognized by the society in which he moves, so can he be judged by the language in which he is expressed.
Jonathan Swift
Isn't society and the state, assuming that it is richer both in means and in ideas, obliged to help achieve the all-round development of the abilities and good inclinations of the child? And these duties of society and the state are not made even more sacred where they recognize education as their monopoly?
Nikolai Pirogov
A tyrant is a mixture of cowardice, stupidity, arbitrariness, irresponsibility and narcissism. Thus, he truly represents the majority of society.
Gabriel Laub
There is nothing more dangerous in society than a person without character.
Jean d'Alembert
Two - three - this is the Society. One will become God, the other the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will hang under the crossbar.
Thomas Carlyle
Get rid of the shortcomings inherent in your countrymen. Water acquires good or bad properties from the soils through which it flows, and a person from the region in which he is born.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
If you want to act honestly, take into account and believe only the public interest. Personal interest is often misleading.
Claude-Adrian Helvetius
A person can serve to improve social life only to the extent that he fulfills the requirements of his conscience in his life.
Lev Tolstoy
If rightly understood interest is the principle of all morality, then it is necessary to strive to ensure that the private interest of the individual person coincides with the interests of all mankind.
Karl Marx
Society finds in literature its real life, elevated to an ideal, brought to consciousness.
Vissarion Belinsky
Society is a hospital for the incurable.
Ralph Emerson
Public opinion is a terrible coward: it is afraid of itself.
William Gaslitt
Well-bred people do not talk in society either about the weather or about religion.
Maria Ebner Eschenbach
Society cannot free itself without freeing every individual.
Friedrich Engels
The frivolity of our society is manifested in the fact that it has long forgotten how to laugh at itself.
Gilbert Chesterton
The highest and most sacred interest of society is its own well-being, equally extended to each of its members.
Vissarion Belinsky
If there were no such points at which the interests of all would converge, there could be no question of any kind of society.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Public opinion is such a court of justice that it is not fitting for a decent person to either blindly believe in its sentences, or irrevocably reject them.
Nicola Chamfort
A person is often left alone with himself, and then he needs virtue; sometimes he is in the company of other people, and then he needs a good name.
Nicola Chamfort
In nature, every phenomenon is a tangled ball; in society, every person is a pebble in a mosaic pattern. Both in the physical world and in the spiritual world everything is intertwined, there is nothing pure, nothing isolated.
Nicola Chamfort
The welfare of society is diminished by the existence of ignorant, immoral or lazy people in society; these harmful qualities in people can only be eliminated in two ways: by taking care that each person receives a proper education, and by providing a person from need.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Between a civilized society and the most bloody tyranny there is, in essence, nothing but the thinnest layer of conventions.
Aldous Huxley
People with character are the conscience of society ...
Ralph Emerson
It is necessary for the good of society that a genius should have the right to incite rebellion, to blaspheme, to offend public opinion, to corrupt young minds—in other words, to shock our aunts and uncles.
George Shaw
Man is made for society. He is unable and does not have the courage to live alone.
William Blackstone
People together can do what they cannot do alone; the unity of minds and hands, the concentration of their forces can become almost omnipotent.
Daniel Webster
Only in the collective are there means for each individual that enable him to develop his inclinations in all directions, and, consequently, only in the collective is personal freedom possible.
Karl Marx
The human essence of nature exists only for a social person: for only in society is nature for a person a link that connects a person with a person ...
Karl Marx
Society is built on moral principles.
Fedor Dostoevsky
Society must be studied in terms of people and people in terms of society: whoever wants to study politics and morality separately will understand nothing in either one or the other.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
All forms of social organization, both good and bad, have one and the same initial basis, which should be borne in mind in any change in this organization. This basis is human passions. Passion should not be understood simply as a vicious attraction to something, but in general any passionate desire, thirst, thoughts, aspirations, hopes and needs of a person.
Wilhelm Weitling
Virtue and vice, moral good and evil - in all countries are determined by whether a given phenomenon is useful or harmful to society.
We cannot live only for ourselves. Thousands of threads connect us with other people; and through these threads, this sympathetic connection, our actions become causes and return to us as effects.
Herman Melville
It is the funny habits of people that make life pleasant and bind society together.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Society produces rogues, and education makes some rogues smarter than others.
Oscar Wilde
Everything worthy of respect is done in solitude, that is, away from society.
Society must always demand from its members a little more than they can give.
George Orwell
Society incomparably runs wilder from the systematic use of punitive measures than from episodically committed crimes.
Oscar Wilde
Everyone talks about public opinion and acts on behalf of public opinion, that is, on behalf of the opinion of everyone minus his own.
Gilbert Chesterton
The public buys its opinions the same way people buy meat and milk: it's cheaper than owning a cow. The only trouble is that this milk consists mainly of water.
George Orwell
To be a man in human society is not at all a heavy duty, but a simple development of an inner need; no one says that the bee has a sacred duty to make honey, she makes it because she is a bee.
Alexander Herzen
The first one who, having fenced off a piece of land, came up with the idea of declaring: “This is mine!” and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, misfortunes and horrors would the human race be saved from by someone who, pulling out stakes or filling up a ditch, would shout to his own kind: “Beware of listening to this deceiver; you are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth are for everyone, and she herself is a draw!”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man is meant to live in society; he must live in society; he is not a complete, finished person and contradicts himself if he lives in isolation.
Johann Fichte
Some authors have so confused the concepts of "society" and "government" that there is little or no difference between them; meanwhile, these things are not only different, but also of different origin. Society is created by our needs, and government by our vices; the first contributes to our happiness positively, uniting our good impulses, the second negatively, curbing our vices; one encourages rapprochement, the other breeds discord. The first is a defender, the second is a punisher.
Thomas Paine
No person who contributes anything to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the society in which he lives, ever remains for a long time unrewarded.
Booker Washington
Society lives by recognized truths.
Honore Balzac
To be a slave or to be a citizen are social definitions, the relationship of person A to person B. Person A as such is not a slave. He is a slave in society and through society.
Karl Marx
Society is the complete essential unity of man with nature, the true resurrection of nature, the realized naturalism of man and the realized humanism of nature.
Karl Marx
I would like to live in a society that enjoys the support of the authorities.
Janusz Wasilkowski
Public opinion does not tolerate drastic changes.
Honore Balzac
Good, smart, compassionate people, when they get together, become much worse. Lack of a sense of personal responsibility awakens bad instincts. Fear of seeming ridiculous deprives them of kindness.
Sarah Bernard
There is no need to ridicule generally respected opinions, by doing this you only offend people, but do not convince them.
Luc Vauvenargue
A non-social person cannot have morality.
By the time we are ripe for society, we become aware of all its negative sides.
George Halifax
The only condition of people before the formation of society was war, and not only war in its ordinary form, but the war of all - against all.
Thomas Hobbes
Life is happiness only when a person can fully and freely use his forces in an expanding direction, and the most complete and all-round life is the most happy life. And all-round life is only social.
Nikolai Shelgunov
A person loves society, even if it is the society of a lonely burning candle.
Georg Lichtenberg
The life of society is governed by laws that do not depend on anyone's arbitrariness.
Lev Mechnikov
The secret of success in society is simple: you need a certain cordiality, you need affection for others.
Ralph Emerson
The monastery is a dungeon where those thrown overboard by society are cast.
Denis Diderot
The very moment when evil would cease to exist, society would have to decline.
Bernard Mandeville
The reason for the sentient soul to flee from society is the desire to gain society.
Ralph Emerson
Comprehension of the evil inherent in nature, one is filled with contempt for death; comprehending the vices of society, one learns to despise life.
Nicola Chamfort
Is it worth correcting a person whose vices are unbearable for society? Isn't it easier to cure those who suffer from weak-heartedness?
Nicola Chamfort
It is almost impossible for a person, taken separately, to do anything, but everything is possible to do in society and by society.
Mikhail Petrashevsky
There is no dignity in the absence of clear and precise notions of the common good.
Denis Diderot
Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; the impulse degrades if it does not receive sympathy from the whole society.
William James
Society greatly contributes to the development of our imagination. Our fantasies flourish at the table as luxuriantly as flowers in a well-loosened flower bed.
Anthony Shaftesbury
Society in any of its states is a blessing, while government at its best is only a necessary evil, and in the worst case, an unbearable evil...
Thomas Paine
First of all, one should avoid again opposing "society", as an abstraction, to the individual. The individual is a social being. Therefore, every manifestation of his life - even if it does not appear in the immediate form of the collective ... is a manifestation and affirmation of social life.
Karl Marx
No matter how rich and luxurious the inner life of a person is, no matter how hot a spring it beats outside, it is not complete if it does not assimilate into its content the interests of the external world, society and mankind.
Vissarion Belinsky
There are times when there is no opinion more pernicious than public opinion.
Nicola Chamfort
The virtues of society are the vices of the saint.
Ralph Emerson
Wise is the one who follows the century along with society; and who seeks to return back ... he is a madman.
George Sand
The rudeness of the old Duma society is measured by the need to prove the material benefits of virtue.
Vasily Klyuchevsky
As society argues, so it is governed. His right is to say stupid things, the right of ministers is to do stupid things.
Nicola Chamfort
It is impossible not to be imbued with the pettiness of the will for someone who lives in a society that has no aspirations other than petty everyday calculations.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Social depravity takes on the color of the social environment in which it develops.
Honore Balzac
Society recognizes and respects only those virtues that have been proven in practice. Whoever wants to know exactly what he is worth can learn this only from the people and, therefore, must submit himself to their judgment.
Claude-Adrian Helvetius
It is such a social order in which the most worthy men, whose true value is greatest, have the greatest opportunity to reach the highest position, no matter where the accident of birth has placed them.
Henri Saint-Simon
The only force capable of moderating individual selfishness is the force of the group.
Émile Durkheim
A morality that stands above class oppositions and any recollection of them, truly human morality, will become possible only at such a stage in the development of society when the opposition of classes will not only be overcome, but also forgotten in life practice.
Friedrich Engels
Who, by virtue of a mysterious power and necessity, the instrument of which are all things, admits that all the events of life, although they occur for external reasons independent of us, can still be considered as being carried out only for our sake and in relation to us (like our own our dreams), - it is not difficult for him to attribute this to what, without actually touching us, takes place outside of us, that is, to signs.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Society should reject everything that is connected with sex.
