Quotes About Society

Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Society tolerates you only if you are successfully servile and despotic; it is a prison without guards – but from which you do not escape without dying.

the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

Belirli bir gruptaki intihar vakalar?n?n kayda deÄŸer bir ÅŸekilde artmas?, bu grup içindeki toplumsal dayan??man?n zay?flad???n? ve üyelerin, varoluÅŸsal krizlere kar?? grup taraf?ndan art?k yeterince korunamad???n? gösterir.

Art is not simply an external ornament donned by the cult to conceal its excessively harsh and austere side; rather the cult has an aesthetic aspect in itself.

man is double…There are two beings in him: an individual being which has its foundation in the organism and the circle of whose activities is therefore strictly limited, and a social being which represents the highest reality in the intellectual and moral order that we can know by observation – I mean society.

Quant aux événements privés qui passent généralement pour être les causes prochaines du suicide, ils n'ont d'autre action que celle que leur prêtent les dispositions morales de la victime, écho de l'état moral de la société.

Society in general, simply by its effect on men's minds, undoubtedly has all that is required to arouse the sensation of the divine. A society is to its members what a god is to its faithful. A god is first of all a being that man conceives of as superior to himself in some respects and one on whom he believes he depends.

Education is a social thing; that is to say, it brings the child into contact with a definite society and not with society in general.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political and moral beliefs that control our actions.

The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

we should not say that an act offends the common consciousness because it is criminal, but that it is criminal because it offends the common consciousness

Religion is in a word the system of symbols by means of which society becomes conscious of itself.

Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

It is true that we take it as evident that social life depends upon its material foundation and bears its mark, just as the mental life of an individual depends upon his nervous system and in fact his whole organism. But collective consciousness is something more than a mere epiphenomenon of its morphological basis, just as individual consciousness is something more than a simple efflorescence of the nervous system.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

L'Occident : une pourriture qui sent bon, un cadavre parfumé.