Man and the State Quotes

“The primary duty of the modern State is the enforcement of social justice.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“The primary duty of the modern State of the enforcement of social justice.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“The primary dur of the modern State is to enforcement of social justice.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“For democracies today the most urgent endeavor is to develop social Justice and improve world economic management, and to defend themselves against totalitarian threats from the outside and totalitarian expansion in the world; but the pursuit of these objectives will inevitably involve the risk of having too many functions of social life controlled by the State from above…”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State

“The body politic also contains in its superior unity the family units, whose essential rights and freedoms are anterior to itself, and a multiplicity of other particular societies which proceed from the free initiative of citizens and should be as autonomous as possible. Such is the element of pluralism inherent in every truly political society.”
― Jacques Maritain, Man and the State