#societies

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#great #great souls #law #never #passion

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#countries #globalized #internally #longer #muslim

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

#leave #march #modern #morality #proportion

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#ages #allow #back #basic #corrupt

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. ↗

— Brian Cox

#cinema #create #deals #egalitarian #equality

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#essential #foundation #international #international relations #law

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

#civilized #free #hold #i #i believe

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#infancy #institutions #later #shape #societies