Alexandre Dumas Quotes

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

I'm fascinated by people in general and what interests them, what it is that someone connects to or what it is that they're passionate about.

Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State.

Man is a social animal.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.