Pastoral Resources

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

No emancipation without that of society.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.