The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
The only part of the conduct of any one for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself his independence is of right absolute. Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal not merely a gregarious animal but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Our society is not a community but merely a collection of isolated family units.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Never respect men merely for their riches but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height but for its use.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he lives his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses it's the cyanide.
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion no political party and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way ours is merely another way.
If religion were true its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.