Society and the World

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down, This is what scatters armies!

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down, This is what scatters armies!

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He’s fit for public authority.

But all your [Creon’s] strength is weakness itself against The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were and shall be Forever, beyond man utterly.

It is a good thing To escape from death, but it is not great pleasure To bring death to a friend.

Numberless are the world’s wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.

I, whom proof hath taught of late How so far only should we hate our foes As though we soon might love them, and so far Do a friend service as to one most like Someday to prove our foe, since oftenest men In friendship but a faithless haven find. 3

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more. 2

Silence gives the proper grace to women.

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die, Befits proud birth. 2

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.