“A society is a cooperative venture for the mutual advantage of its members.”
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 3, Political Theory: Social Justice And The State, p. 42
Alternate: The citizens are the members of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages.<br>The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.<br>..<br>if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country <br class="br"> page 176 https://books.google.ca/books?id=NukJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176 of English translation published in 1883, <br class="br">while the bottom-left marks it as page 176, it is listed as page 101 on the top-left. The section of the book is titled "OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY, ETC." and it is part of chapter XIX called "OF OUR NATIVE COUNTRY AND SEVERAL THINGS THAT RELATE TO IT" <br class="br">quoted in 1856 case https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/60/393/#476 in supreme court <br class="br">quoted in 1942 by Mr. Stewart seen in page 1683 https://books.google.ca/books?id=qiI9TLONLVMC&pg=PA1683 of part 2 of volume 8 of "Proceedings and Debates of the 77th Congress Second Session" <br class="br">The Law of Nations (1758) <br class="br">Original: (fr) Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autorite, ils participent avec egalite a ses avantages.
“A society is a cooperative venture for the mutual advantage of its members.”
Nicholas Barr (1943) British economist
Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 3, Political Theory: Social Justice And The State, p. 42
Edmund Burke book An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
Source: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 442
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Right Relation of Reason to Religion, p.256-7
“Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), p. 14.
“Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.”
Celia Green (1935) British philosopher
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 486.
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead (1862) as translated by Constance Garnett; as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 210 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&pg=PA210