Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason and will, and freely consented to. Man is a political animal, which means that the human person craves political life, communal life, not only with regard to the family community, but with regard to the civil community.


The Rights of Man (1945). London: Geoffrey Bles, pp. 7–8.

Jacques Maritain Quotes

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason...

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason...

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason...

Thus society is born, as something required by nature, and (because this nature is human nature) as something accomplished through a work of reason...