Progress Of Society quotes
16 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
"All progress means war with society."
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
"It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society."
"Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative."
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"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."
"The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often."
"Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society."
"Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind."
"Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car."
