"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." ― George Orwell Topic(s): Society Tags: always, seemed, society More From George Orwell "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting." "Liberal: a power worshipper without power." More In Society "I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."― Mary Wollstonecraft "Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations."― Christian Lous Lange "The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests."― Edwin Louis Cole