What is society? This is a very voluminous and rather complex system, the basis for which is the collective activity of people. It was, is and will remain a subject for discussion and research. And its specificity lies precisely in the fact that countless people participate in this system, each of whom is a Personality. Accordingly, society is constantly changing. That is why people will talk about him forever. And this, by the way, influenced the statements of great people about public order.
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 wrote the following statement: “The purpose of the state is the happiness of the 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.”
Quotes about discipline and order
If we conscientiously teach discipline to workers and peasants, then we must start with ourselves. V. I. Lenin
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In every team, discipline must be placed above the interests of individual team members. A. S. Makarenko
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Discipline in our society is a moral and political phenomenon. A. S. Makarenko
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Acting without rules is the most difficult and most tiring task in this world. A. Manzoni
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Ultimately, order, and only order, creates freedom. Disorder creates slavery. S. Peguy
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When the existing order is a complete injustice, then its very violation promises some kind of justice. R. Rolland
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Rules of behavior sometimes resemble ritual rites: they seem meaningless, but they educate people. A. Saint-Exupery
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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.
What worried the greats
It is unlikely that famous scientists, thinkers and literary figures would talk about social order and everything connected with it if this topic did not concern them. To be more precise, if she hadn’t touched them. Probably, many quotes about social order appeared this way - great people tried to explain to themselves how to cope with everything that was happening. L. Tolstoy said that man is unthinkable outside of society. This phrase has long become a catchphrase. And, be that as it may, Lev Nikolaevich was right. Just like Belinsky, saying that although man was created by nature, society still develops him.
Sayings, quotes and aphorisms of great people about justice
"The concept of justice is as susceptible to fashion as women's jewelry." (Blaise Pascal)
“Revenge loves to act under the banner of justice.” (Baurzhan Toyshibekov) “In our youth, we believe that justice is the minimum of what we have the right to expect from others. In adulthood, we become convinced that this is the maximum.” (Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach) “Giving everyone his own would mean: wanting justice and achieving chaos.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) “An honest man almost always argues fairly.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“Justice is the thread that binds together all civilized men and all civilized nations.” (Daniel Webster) “When there is justice in a country, it is a shame to be poor and insignificant; when there is no justice, it is a shame to be rich and noble.” (Confucius (Kun Tzu))
“Being fair in thought does not mean being fair in practice.” (Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky) “Justice is truth in action.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“With God everything is beautiful, good, and fair, but people consider some things unjust and others just.” (Heraclitus of Ephesus)
“The rarest thing you can find on earth is a truly just man.” (James Fenimore Cooper)
“Justice must be strong, and strength must be fair.” (Blaise Pascal)
“Tell me the degree of power of this or that person, from this degree I can conclude about his justice.” (Claude Adrian Helvetius)
“Justice without force is helpless; and force without justice is despotic.” (Blaise Pascal)
“FAITH IN JUSTICE is the belief that life should treat you fairly, presuming that those with whom it treated terribly were also fair: demanding horrific injustice!” (Alexander Kruglov)
“If power unites with justice, then what could be stronger than this union?” (Aeschylus)
“Justice is a creation that is right, legal and just, which is done for everyone in truth, conscience and not disputed” (I. Golyuk)
“Injustice committed against one person is a threat to all.” (Charles Louis Montesquieu)
“Abusing the idea of justice in matters of practical utility can bring nothing but harm. Justice remains sacred when it belongs to the Lord God. In human hands it turns into a table for multiplying corpses." (M. Voloshin)
“The most just thing in the world has been the division of the mind: no one complains that he was deprived.” (Jacques Tati)
“When all men are free, they will be equal; when they are equal, they will be just.” (Louis Antoine de Saint-Just)
“The unshakable foundation of the state is justice.” (Pindar)
“If you don’t want to fight injustice, then you have to put up with it.” (Asif Assad)
“Every just cause, in order to triumph, needs strength no less than an unjust cause.” (Anatole France) “Whoever has already become accustomed to great injustice perceives lesser injustice as a privilege.” (Jane Carlisle)
“Justice should be the norm of human action.” (Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky)
“The desire to have a fair assessment, as a rule, quickly disappears when you make your own mistakes, and then the question of Faith arises.” (V.V. Khailov)
“Justice cannot exist without firmness; firmness should not be without justice.” (Ilya Shevelev)
“Justice is a product as necessary for life as bread.” (Karl Ludwig Börne (Börne))
“The only thing that every honest person should be guided in his actions is whether what he does is fair or unjust, and whether it is the act of a good or an evil person.” (Socrates)
“For most people, the love of justice is simply the fear of being subjected to injustice.” (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
“The highest and most characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.” (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) “The basis of justice is fidelity, that is, constancy and truth in words and deeds.” (Marsimo Ficino)
“The idea of justice is irrefutable: it grows from moral laws, from the laws of reason, and from the very life of the masses; justice is a word full of the thrill of life.” (Henri Barbusse)
“Justice is a machine that, after it has been given an initial start, operates on its own.” (John Galsworthy)
“You cannot be fair without being humane.” (Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues)
“Justice always prevails... three out of seven times.” (Michael Wagner)
“Woe to him who would think to realize the ideal of justice on earth.” (Lev Shestov) “When assessing worldly affairs, a noble man does not reject or approve of anything, but measures everything with justice.” (Confucius (Kun Tzu))
“I cannot prove the validity of my point of view precisely because its validity is obvious.” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) “Man...acquires a sense of justice very early, but very late or does not acquire the concept of justice at all.” (Immanuel Kant)
“The first reward of justice is the consciousness that one has acted justly.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“I demand from life what cannot be demanded and is a sin - justice.” (Tatiana Doronina)
“The public good is justice.” (Aristotle)
“First you look for justice, and then for another job.” (Pavel Sergeevich Taranov)
“Injustice is achieved in two ways: either by violence or by deception.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
“When justice disappears, there is nothing left to add value to people’s lives.” (Immanuel Kant) “The breath of life is in justice.” (Ancient Egyptian wisdom) “It is not difficult to be kind, it is difficult to be fair.” (Victor Marie Hugo) “To teach people to love justice, we must show them the results of injustice.” (Adam Smith)
“No one, of course, is born with ready-made concepts of law and justice, but human nature is designed in such a way that at a certain age these truths are naturally developed.” (Voltaire Marie Francois Arouet)
“The lack of justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (Martin Luther King)
“Justice should not only triumph, it should be seen by the people.” (Ernst Heine) “Justice is an eternal fugitive from the camp of the winners.” (Winston Churchill)
“Whatever they think of you, do what you think is fair.” (Pythagoras)
“If you want to weigh a service and an insult, then take away the weight from one, add what was taken to the other - and you will be fair.” (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov)
“A just cause, even hidden in the depths of a cave, is stronger than an entire army.” (José Marti) “Only that which lasts is great; Only that which is fair lasts.” (Giuseppe Ferrari)
“Justice is always seasoned with a pinch of revenge.” (Georges Wolfrom)
“Justice is to give each his due.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
“Justice is truth in action.” (Joseph Joubert)
“Justice is a property of the soul, guided by which people invariably and constantly strive to give everyone their due.” (Thomas Aquinas) “To see injustice and remain silent means to participate in it yourself.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“Justice does not need force; it is force itself.” (Artem Nio)
“Value a just person more than your own.” (Antisthenes from Athens)
“Justice must be the basis of both our actions and our very desires.” (K. F. Ryleev)
“Justice is the constant and unchanging will to give to everyone his due.” (Ancient aphorism)
“Every justice has its weaknesses.” (Leonid S. Sukhorukov)
“Well, where is the justice in life? All these accidental deaths, illnesses, all these avalanches and mudflows, cars with drunk drivers, ice, bandits and hooligans... And in nature?! After all, there is no justice there either! The life of a beetle or a crown of God is as random as the life of a person... But isn’t birth itself random? And where there is chance, there can be no justice.” (G. Viren)
“People are always mistaken and will continue to be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider just and unjust.” (Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
“Wherever our reason judges correctly, indulgence and mercy emerge; any justice is merciful, otherwise it is not justice.” (Igor Mironovich Guberman)
“Justice is fulfilling one’s duty, injustice is not doing what one should, evading [one’s duties].” (Democritus)
“Injustice always offends our feelings unless it directly benefits us.” (Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues)
“People by nature do not so much honor and love justice as they pursue profit.” (Babriy)
“There is nothing more monstrous than armed injustice.” (Aristotle)
"Injustice: Rich fools look down on poor smart people." (Harry Simanovich)
“To act justly, you need to know very little, but to do injustice with good reason, you need to thoroughly study the law. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
“Goodness does not lie in not doing injustice, but in not even wanting it.” (Democritus) “Man’s desire for justice makes democracy possible, but it is man’s desire for injustice that makes it necessary.” (Reinhold Niebuhr)
“What satisfaction a person experiences when, looking into his own heart, he is convinced that his heart is fair.” (Charles Louis Montesquieu)
“Justice must be rendered to one's neighbor without delay; to delay in such cases is to be unfair.” (Jean de La Bruyère)
“Justice is rather a masculine virtue, philanthropy is a feminine one.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)
“There are three sources of injustice: violence as such, malicious cunning hiding behind the name of law, and the cruelty of the law itself.” (Francis Bacon)
"Justice is very real... in an unrealistic 'bright future'." (Ilya Gerchikov) “The pension is funny, but when you think about it, you want to cry.” (Ilya Gerchikov)
“The voice of the people unites together into one voice—crying in the wilderness.” (Ilya Gerchikov)
“Rumors about the possible triumph of justice are greatly exaggerated.” (Ilya Gerchikov) “A just person is not one who does not commit injustice, but one who, having the opportunity to be unjust, does not want to be so.” (Menander)
“Justice without wisdom means a lot, wisdom without justice means nothing.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero) “Injustice is either cooperated or fought.” (Albert Camus)
“Majority votes cannot be the measure of justice.” (Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller)
“Oh, how unfair the light can be sometimes! Innocence will never be recognized in him.” (Jean Baptiste Moliere)
“Justice and impartiality - Guardians are twins who protect people. From them come words so blessed and wise that they bring prosperity to the world and protection to the nations.” (Baha'u'llah)
“If the principle of justice is not understood, how then should we act? If a person walks along the road but does not see where he is going, how can he go?” (Zhu Xi)
“Without strength, justice is nothing but weakness; strength without justice is tyrannical.” (Blaise Pascal)
“If you suddenly have to choose, then which of the positions should you be inclined to choose - to become a victim of injustice yourself or to commit an unjust deed?” (Socrates)
“The crown of justice is courage of spirit and fearlessness of thought, but the limit of injustice is the fear of threatening misfortune.” (Democritus)
“Injustice is equally vile whether it is committed by one person or by many.” (Herbert Spencer)
“In order not to need someone who does justice, be fair yourself.” (Eastern wisdom)
“When someone’s opinion is shared, they don’t always think about justice.” (Ivan Ivanyuk)
“Injustice is a working model of perpetual motion.” (Gennady Malkin)
“Justice is the only service.” (Robert Greene Ingersoll)
“When signaling the horn, always be fair, but strict.” (Kozma Prutkov)
“Fairness is based on an understanding of all the circumstances.” (W. Wadler)
“In those tiny worlds in which children live ... nothing is felt more subtly and felt so keenly as injustice.” (Charles Dickens) “Truth is the handmaiden of justice, freedom is her daughter, peace is her faithful companion, prosperity follows on her heels, victory is among her most devoted admirers...” (Sidney Smith)
“Justice is the fair distribution of someone else’s property.” (Gennady Malkin)
“The justice of a moderate judge testifies to his love for his high position.” (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
“Injustice is not always associated with some action; often it consists precisely in inaction.” (Marcus Aurelius)
“Justice is a word as if cast from metal; there is neither warmth nor condescension in it. Sometimes it seems to me that it is made of cast iron, sometimes it loses weight, becomes tin. You need to warm him with your passion.” (Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg)
“A man who has achieved complete perfection is above all animals; but he is lower than everyone else if he lives without laws and without justice. Indeed, there is nothing more monstrous than armed injustice.” (Aristotle.)
“Verily, the just with Allah will be on the minbars of light, at the right hand of the Merciful, both of whose hands are right. These are those who adhere to justice in their decisions, families and in what they manage.” (Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him)
“To be kind is very easy, to be fair is what is difficult.” (Victor Marie Hugo). “In nature, everything is wisely thought out and arranged, everyone should do their own thing, and in this wisdom lies the highest justice of life.” (Leonardo da Vinci)
“Justice is a product as necessary for life as bread.” (Ludwig Berne).
“The measure of justice cannot be the majority of votes.” (Schiller I).
“He who does not commit injustice is honored, but he who does not allow others to commit injustice is more than twice worthy of honor.” (Plato)
“Injustice is equally vile whether it is committed by one person or by many.” (Spencer).
“The first reward of justice is the consciousness that one has acted justly.” (Rousseau J).
“No one, of course, is born with ready-made concepts of law and justice, but human nature is designed in such a way that at a certain age these truths are developed naturally.” (Voltaire).
““Idiot”: ...You have no tenderness: there is only truth, therefore it is unfair.” (Fyodor Dostoevsky).
Everything ingenious is simple
Many statements about social order are incredibly simple, but despite this, the truth is hidden in them. An unknown person said that no woman is as fickle and flighty as the opinion of society. And this is really so - we can see confirmation of these words every day. The following phrase, belonging to Blaise Pascal, a French writer, can be considered a continuation of the previous quote: “Public opinion rules people.” It’s worth thinking about: is it necessary to submit to something frivolous and fickle, moreover, if it has absolutely no meaning? Many people deceive themselves that they care what others think of them. But, in essence, it doesn’t matter. After all, as Andre Maurois said, public opinion is just will-o'-the-wisp in our lives, and not a beacon.
