Kenneth Frazier Quotes

Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

The nation’s priority is stability.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Societies depend on agreed rules.

What people want, above all, is order.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Property with peace and order; with civil and social manners ... are good things too; and, without them, liberty is not a benefit ... not likely to continue long.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.

I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Society is one word, but many things.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.