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- 1 Statements by Russians 1.1 Vissarion Belinsky
- 1.2 Alexander Nikitenko
- 1.3 Dmitry Pisarev
- 2.1 François Guizot
On religious conformism:
“There is a standard way to simplify and moderate the incredible complexity of the world around us. To do this, you need to invent several “fairytale” Gods, the more infantile the better, and introduce several children’s commandments: honor your father and mother, do not kill, etc. These rules are simple and logical. You passively follow them. You pray. You are sacrificing. Do you work. Do you believe. And then, praise be to those who are bored, there will be no soul-tormenting fantasies about people wandering around this meaningless, disorderly universe, trying to know themselves.”
Statements by Russians
Vissarion Belinsky
Russian literary critic (1811-1848).
| Only ideas, not words, have lasting power over society.[1] |
Alexander Nikitenko
Literary historian, censor, professor at St. Petersburg University, full member of the Academy of Sciences (1804-1877).
| A healthy society will always find a cure for its diseases within itself, and if not, then no medicine from the authorities will help it.[2] |
Dmitry Pisarev
Russian publicist and literary critic, translator, revolutionary democrat (1840-1868).
| Society is to blame for everything that happens within its boundaries; every crappy personality, by the very fact of his existence, indicates some shortcoming in social organization.[3] |
References to philosophy
Great thinkers did not limit themselves to simple statements. No, they developed entire theories. Speaking about the interesting statements of great people about social order, I would like to note the thoughts of the well-known Plato and Aristotle. The first of them argued that society consists of three layers: philosophers, warriors and hard workers. And that there is a world of ideas and matter. Those people who are endowed with the talent to think should rule the state. Plato saw the social order as a pyramid that was supported by philosophers and thinkers.
Aristotle belongs to the following state - this is the happiness of people. And politics is the science that allows us to understand how to achieve happiness in society.” But, at the same time, the philosopher said that an ideal form of government as such does not exist. But there is a cycle of forms of government. This is how the thinker’s words sounded: “The best form of government is one in which the laws are respected and the government is fair.”
Statements by foreigners
Francois Guizot
French historian, critic, politician and statesman (1767-1874).
| During social unrest, every indifferent person becomes dissatisfied, and every dissatisfied person becomes an enemy, every enemy becomes a conspirator.[4] |
Victor Hugo
French writer, one of the main figures of French romanticism (1802-1885).
| Any social doctrine that attempts to destroy the family is worthless and, moreover, inapplicable. The family is the crystal of society.[5] |
Anatole France
French writer and literary critic (1844-1924).
| If public opinion is the king of the world, then prejudice is its tyrant.[6] |
Robert Frost
One of the greatest poets in US history, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1874-1963).
| If society is tailored to our standards, we call it freedom.[7] |
Pierre Buast
French lexicographer and poet (1765-1824).
| The greatest social liberty must be nothing less than the least slavery.[8] |
| Terror did not come up with any other means to equalize society other than cutting off heads that rise above the level of mediocrity.[9] |
Wilhelm Schwebel
German scientist and publicist, aphorist (20th century).
| No society can be worse than the people of whom it is composed.[10] |
George Santayana
American philosopher and writer of Spanish origin (1863-1952).
| Society is like air: it is necessary for breathing, but not enough for life.[11] |
Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, poet and statesman (1st century AD).
| Society is a vault of stones that would collapse if one did not support the other.[12] |
Max Nordau
Physician, writer, politician and co-founder of the World Zionist Organization (1849–1923).
| Society praises hard work in refined terms, but assigns, however, to the hardworking person a lower social level. It kisses the gloved hand and spits on the worker’s calloused hand. It looks at the millionaire as a demigod, and at the day laborer as a pariah.[13] |
Ralph Emerson
American essayist, poet, philosopher, pastor, lecturer, public figure (1803-1882).
| Society is always in a conspiracy against a person. Conformity is considered a virtue, self-confidence a sin. Society loves not a person and life, but names and customs.[14] |
William James
American philosopher and psychologist, one of the founders and leading representative of pragmatism and functionalism (1842-1910).
| Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; a person degrades if he does not receive sympathy from the whole society.[15] |
Leon Gambetta
French politician, prime minister and foreign minister of France in 1881-1882 (1838-1882).
| The spread of education in the deepest strata of society depends on the number of scientists, on the respect they have, on the freedom they are given, on the dignity with which they are surrounded.[16] |
Henry Bolingbroke
English political philosopher, statesman and writer from the Tory party (1678-1751).
| Freedom is for the social organism what health is for the individual. If a person loses his health, nothing in the world brings him joy; if society loses freedom, then it languishes and no longer knows happiness.[17] |
Emil Littre
French positivist philosopher, historian, philologist and lexicographer (1801-1881).
| Freedom is a necessary element of any well-ordered society, for without it there is neither morality nor responsibility, especially any democracy, for without it one cannot be a ruler.[18] |
Arnold Toynbee
British historian, philosopher of history, cultural scientist and sociologist, professor who studied international history at the London School of Economics and the University of London (1889-1975).
| The greatness and sustainability of any society can be judged by one simple criterion, namely: how this society cares for children, the elderly and the sick.[19] |
Quotes about modern society (125 quotes)
Society is a group of people who have common interests, values and goals. Human societies are characterized by a pattern of relations (social relations) between people, which can be described as the totality of such relations between its subjects. In the social sciences, society as a whole often exhibits stratification. Society is a supra-individual, supra-group and supra-institutional association of people, which is characterized by various types of social differentiation and division of labor. Modern society is a post-industrial society that has entered a new stage of social historical development. Quotes about modern society are presented in this collection.
Public opinion rules people.
Blaise Pascal
The best social system is one that can change itself for the better.
Arkady Davidovich
A social system that cannot be changed should not be abandoned.
H. Jackson
Truth and freedom are the pillars of society.
Ibsen
If a legal society tries to make politics moral, then for an authoritarian society morality itself is only politics.
Alexander Kruglov
If society is tailored to our standards, we call it freedom.
Robert Frost
The creator of a book is the author, the creator of its destiny is society.
Victor Marie Hugo
A healthy society will always find a cure for its diseases within itself, and if not, then no medicine from the authorities will help it.
Alexander Nikitenko
No society can be worse than the people it consists of.
Wilhelm Schwebel
It is impossible to live in society and be free from society.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Society is like air: it is necessary for breathing, but not enough for life.
George Santayana
Society is a vault of stones that would collapse if one did not support the other.
Seneca
Public opinion spares the hawk and punishes the chicken.
Juvenal
Society is to blame for everything that happens within its boundaries; Every worthless personality, by the very fact of his existence, indicates some kind of shortcoming in social organization.
Dmitry Pisarev
Society is always in a conspiracy against a person. Conformity is considered a virtue, self-confidence is considered a sin. Society loves not a person and life, but names and customs.
Ralph Emerson
Law is the crystallization of social prejudices. Ian Lancaster Fleming
Society degrades if it does not receive impulses from individuals; a person degrades if he does not receive sympathy from the whole society.
William James
The greatness and sustainability of any society can be judged by one simple criterion, namely: how this society cares for children, the elderly and the sick.
Arnold Toynbee
Public opinion always has the last word.
Napoleon I Bonaparte
Society is a collective insincerity.
A. Bitov
Society is nothing more than the result of a mechanical equilibrium of brute forces.
I. Ten
Why should I be the soul of society when there is no soul in it at all?
Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky
Society is a weapon of war.
F. Nietzsche
Society is a yoke of scales that cannot lift some without lowering others.
J. Vanier
Only ideas, not words, have lasting power over society.
Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Society has invented three ways to keep people in slavery: violence, money and freedom.
G. Laub
Society punishes any superiority... An original character, an integral personality that does not compromise, encounters obstacles everywhere and encounters hostility from all sides. Colorless and vulgar natures enjoy special sympathy... To achieve anything, you must be a mediocre and helpful person, be able to be servile.
E. and J. Goncourt
If there are more cats and dogs in a society than children, it is sick.
Schwebel Wilhelm
Society hates two categories of citizens: those who attack it and those who defend it.
V. Hugo
Society can never forgive those who are innocent of anything.
E. Lec
Nature creates man, but society develops and shapes him.
Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Society prepares crimes, criminals commit them.
G. Buckle
Society is like a beehive: you cannot approach it often without being stung.
P. Buast
Family interests almost always destroy public interests.
Bacon Francis
Society is divided into two large classes: those who work to live, and those who live to make others work.
C. Raiberti
Society is made up of two classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
N. Chamfort
Each social group has its own code of honor.
Friedrich Engels
A society that puts equality (in the sense of equality of income) above freedom receives neither freedom nor equality.
M. Friedman
Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
O. Wilde
Where there is a society of women, the upper and lower circles will now appear there.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
Every society exists on a certain cement of social lies, whether you call it convention, decency or hypocrisy.
G. Fedotov
Two or three is already Society. One will become God, the other will become the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will dangle under the crossbar.
T. Carlyle
A person can find meaning in life only by devoting himself to society.
Albert Einstein
Every person, no matter who he is, tries to put on such an appearance and put on such a guise that he will be mistaken for who he wants to appear to be; Therefore, we can say that society consists of only individuals.
F. La Rochefoucauld
The way society thinks is how it is governed. His right is to say stupid things, the ministers have the right to do stupid things.
N. Chamfort
The thoughts of the best minds always ultimately become the opinion of society.
Chesterfield
I am convinced that if society were not entirely artificial, a simple and genuine feeling would make a much less strong impression on people than it does today. It would please, but not surprise; now it both pleases and surprises. Our surprise is a mockery of society; our joy is a tribute to nature.
N Chamfort
As soon as serving society ceases to be the main business of citizens and they prefer to serve it with their wallets rather than personally, the state is already close to destruction. Need to go into battle? - They hire troops, but they themselves stay at home. Do you need to go to the Council? — they elect deputies and stay at home. Finally, they eventually have soldiers to serve the fatherland and representatives to sell it.
J. J. Rousseau
I call virtue the habit of actions useful to the public good.
Radishchev Alexander Nikolaevich
It is in seriousness that the frivolity of our society, which has long forgotten how to laugh at itself, is most manifested.
G. Chesterton
Everything worthy of respect was accomplished in solitude, that is, away from society.
Jean Paul
True social progress lies in greater and greater unity of people.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The reason that prompts the sensual soul to flee from society is the desire to find society.
R. Emerson
In undeveloped societies, the greatest passions are for power, money and women; in developed ones - money, power and crosswords.
S. Cheese
The monastery is a dungeon where those whom society has thrown overboard are thrown.
Denis Diderot
Most public institutions are structured as if their goal is to educate people who think and feel in the ordinary way: it is easier for such people to both manage others and obey others. N. Chamfort
In a revolution, the foam of society, scoundrels and criminals rise to the surface.
William Somerset Maugham
Two or three is already Society. One will become God, the other will become the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will dangle under the crossbar.
Thomas Carlyle
Books introduce us to the best society, introducing us to the greatest minds of all time.
Samuel Smiles
Society cannot liberate itself without liberating each individual.
Friedrich Engels
If there were no points at which the interests of everyone converged, there could be no talk of any kind of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Society finds in literature its real life, elevated to an ideal, brought to consciousness.
Avoid societies that want to shine with intelligence: their morals are mostly depraved.
Alexander Vasilievich Suvorov
The choice of friends is followed by the choice of society. Make every effort to associate with those above you. This will lift you up, while association with people of a lower level will force you to fall, for as the society in which you find yourself is, so are you.
Philip D. S. Chesterfield
Clothes make the person. Naked people have little or no influence on society
Mark Twain
Two things make a person godlike: living for the good of society and being truthful.
Pythagoras
A person loves company, even if it is the company of a lonely burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
Oscar Wilde
The last highest goal of society is complete agreement and unanimity with all its possible members.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Truth and freedom are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Society is a civilized horde consisting of two powerful tribes: the malnourished and the bored.
George G. Byron
A wise legislator begins not by issuing laws, but by examining their suitability for a given society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A good society is a means that helps those who are part of this society to live well, and not at all an association of people that in itself has some special merits.
Bertrand Russell
While building the most highly moral society, we allow the most immoral things to happen.
Anatoly Stepanovich Ivanov
Every society has its scum.
To educate a person intellectually without educating him morally means to raise a threat to society.
Theodore Roosevelt
Society is like air: it is necessary for breathing, but not enough for life.
George Santayana
Modern Western society is absurd because it cannot offer a European a single value that he could accept as his own. The entire value system adopted in the West contradicts the true needs of the inner world of the individual and very soon leads a person of Western civilization to the idea of the absurdity of his existence and, as a consequence, to suicide.
Albert Camus
Your society is a poison that inevitably poisons even the purest soul.
Emily Brontë
Society and man are enemies, dependent on each other.
Arthur Miller
Loneliness is sometimes the best company.
John Milton
The superstitious in society are the same as the cowardly in the army: they themselves feel and arouse panic in others.
Voltaire
The moral progress of society depends solely on the independence of man.
Albert Einstein
Society often forgives the criminal. But not a dreamer.
Oscar Wilde
Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
Oscar Wilde
It is in seriousness that the frivolity of our society, which has long forgotten how to laugh at itself, is manifested.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Too much merit sometimes makes a person unsuitable for society: people don’t go to the market with gold bars - they need small change, especially small change.
Nicola de Chamfort
Man is 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 wild thorns in a wasteland.
Denis Diderot
First, don't do anything without a reason or purpose. Secondly, don’t do anything that doesn’t benefit society.
Marcus Aurelius
Society cannot liberate itself without liberating each individual.
Friedrich Engels
There is no doubt that the best initiatives that brought the greatest benefit to society came from unmarried and childless people...
Francis Bacon
For society, rebellion is no less useful than a thunderstorm for nature. This is a medicine necessary for the health of the government.
Thomas Jefferson
Society is an excuse for the failure of an individual's love.
Leonard Cohen
By virtue of the iron law of war, a much better society always gathers at the front than in the rear.
Sergey Adamovich Kolbasiev
Wherever a person goes, wherever he hides, people will definitely find him, impose their habits on him, and, if possible, society.
Henry David Thoreau
And among people there are more copies than originals.
Pablo Picasso
I really wish we all needed each other.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Two or three is already Society. One will become God, the other will become the devil, one will speak from the pulpit, the other will dangle under the crossbar.
Thomas Carlyle
When a society has no ideals, it does not need theater.
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Rich society has strangled many more geniuses than it has nurtured.
Pierre-Jean de Beranger
Rich men who lack convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women who lack morals.
George Bernard Shaw
Inflaming desires to the point of complete intolerance, while simultaneously blocking any path to their fulfillment, is the only principle underlying Western society.
Michel Houellebecq
It is very important to discuss both the good and bad sides of technological progress as widely as possible, so that its direction is determined by the whole society, and not just specialists.
Bill Gates
Society - quotes and sayings
Society is collective insincerity.
Andrey Bitov
It is not honors, titles, greatness that constitute the real value for a person, but the opinion that the public has about them.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Openness of society means, first of all, tolerance, and therefore indifference to the real content of other cultures. Instead of “I’m right - you’re wrong”, put “Each of us is right in our own way.” But someone else’s truth does not cause much interest, and one’s own, turning into one of many, loses its former charm and former authority.
Alan Bloom
The world is divided into three classes of people: a very small group of people who do things, a larger group who watches things get done, and the majority who never know what is happening.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Whoever has a place at the head of a crowded society, let him not forget what he himself has been appointed to do. He must remain in this post, of course, no longer than the wishes of the people who invited him to the kingdom.
Thomas More
Public opinion is a mixture of stupidity, weakness, false and true opinions, selfishness and newspaper articles.
Robert Peel
Society will give you “everything” if you give it your freedom.
Osho
Public order depends on justice. Therefore, by right, the place of judges is in the first row of the social hierarchy. Therefore, no honors or signs of respect can be considered excessive for them.
Napoleon I Bonaparte
In a democratic society, truth and lies have equal rights.
Leonid Shebarshin
How we treat children is how they treat society.
Karl Menninger
A woman guided by reason and not by heart is a real social infection: she has all the shortcomings of a passionate and loving woman, but none of her virtues; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without gender.
Honore de Balzac
A society in which one spouse sees the other as property promotes jealousy as a means of fighting for self-respect.
Otto Fenichel
One of the many paradoxes in which “civilized” society is entangled is that the demand for humanity in relation to the individual has again come into conflict with the interests of humanity.
Konrad Lorenz
Society is created by our needs, and government by our vices.
Thomas Paine
No science can teach people how to live, or teach society how it should be organized. No science can predict humanity's future.
Raymond Aron
Man is 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 wild thorns in a wasteland.
Denis Diderot
Society is becoming more complex faster than the education of the masses is growing.
Raymond Aron
Social progress is inversely related to the degree of coercion, violence or power manifested in social life. Lev Mechnikov
In human society, some of the worst predispositions which suddenly, without any apparent cause, appear in the composition of family members, perhaps represent a return to a primitive state from which we are not many generations removed.
Charles Robert Darwin
The life of society is governed by laws that do not depend on anyone’s arbitrariness.
Lev Mechnikov
A person is defined by the society to which he belongs, as well as by those to which he does not want to belong.
Orson Scott Card
The sphere of the spirit is the only sphere where a person can oppose himself to an omnipotent society and defend his self-sufficient value.
Igor Efimov
see also
- Quotes about Russia
- Quotes about the state
- Quotes about fatherland and homeland
- Quotes about people and nation
- Quotes about politics
- Quotes about war and peace
- Russian proverbs and sayings
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Something that makes you think
Many of the statements of great people about social order really give rise to certain thoughts. Belinsky argued that a person is the son of his country, a citizen of the fatherland, and he must warmly take all its interests to heart. And Cicero said that social order is a prescription, following which we must control our actions and, of course, our lives, no matter what the circumstances. Another interesting phrase belongs to the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. A famous thinker said that a person, from all existing sciences, is obliged to know how to live in order to do as much good as possible for society.
In fact, such statements by great people about social order make you think and rethink something. The most interesting thing is that when studying such quotes, said hundreds of years ago, a truth is revealed that is still relevant today. From this we can conclude: society, it turns out, is not changing that much.
About consumer society and the chthonic horror hidden behind its façade:
“The old drama is repeating itself: we are all mired in a social swamp. All this has already happened in Ancient Rome and in Persia, in the Ottoman Empire and in Athens. All the same symptoms appeared. We flounder in an air-conditioned anthill under the threat of wars, overpopulation, and the replication of celluloid clichés. We are entertained by our ant circus - television, but we are becoming more and more scared and, even worse, our lives are becoming more and more boring, and we are ready to open a new page in history.”
On how seeking social approval robs us of our identity:
“Most larval people live in fear of being seen as doing something sinful or “bad.” They need constant support to maintain a sense of social approval. Conversations with larval people on sexual, philosophical and ethical topics are extremely dangerous ground. Hypocrisy, unconscious motivation, irrational paradox, need for approval and fear of shame dominate any discussion of philosophy-religion.”
