“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.” TryingFacesCultureSidesClassSocietyDegreesDiversityHighestSocial JusticeSmileDistressSocial ClassClasses Of Society Author:Thomas Fuller
“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.” MenWellsKindImportantBodyProgressSocietyMaterialsDependsHigherDegreesIntellectualAdvantageLaborBreadAll KindsDaily Bread Book:The Descent of Man Source: The Descent of Man
“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.” IfsThinkingKindStatesPoliticalOrderPoliticsCommunityViewsGreaterSocietyDegreesHighestAimEmbraceAssociation Author:Aristotle
“The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.” PersonsGovernmentFormNumbersSocietySecurityComfortDegreesCommunicateEaseOne WordForms Of Government Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.” IfsChanceSocietyBecomingDegreesBehaviorPercentViolentProbabilityInfantChances AreValidityVariablesAffectionateLikelihoodDevelopmental Author:James W. Prescott
“The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.” StatesProblemHumanityLostAbilitySocietyDegreesProfoundAcademic Author:Stephen D. Cox
“The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.” RealizingChurchStudySocietyDegreesCatholicContemporaryMinistersSinnerSimilarityProtestantsCongregationRoman Catholic Author:D. Elton Trueblood