Michel de Montaigne Quotes

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Lists have always implied social order.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

We live in an atmosphere of organization .... Men are learning the disadvantages of isolated action. Whether or not we approve of trusts and trades-unions and similar combinations, and whatever their motives, they rest on a foundation which is sound alike from the business and religious standpoint; namely, the principle of union and co-operation.

Any organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

You never can tell with bees.

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.