Quotes About Society

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world. If we force people to do good, they will be free to be happy.

We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.

The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.

A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.

A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going to the supermarket. So the ideal would be to train cattle to make butcher knives and take turns cutting each other up at a convenient location.

You can show a dozen guys murderin' each other on TV but you can't ever show two people making love. A naked blade is reckoned to be less obscene than a naked woman.

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todo el mundo roba, desde los niños a los viejos —lo cual puede significar simplemente, dado que todo pertenece al Estado, que se han cogido unas pocas frutas—. Trampa infernal, una sociedad que no deja más opción que morir, robar y engañar: esta deseducación, en particular entre los jóvenes, ha permitido que subsista hasta hoy un cinismo y un egoísmo que comprometen las posibilidades de desarrollo de Camboya.

También en este punto el modelo procedía de arriba: las parejas dirigentes vivían frecuentemente separadas155. Estaba mal visto que una madre dedicase demasiado tiempo a su hijo, incluso pequeño. Se anuló la autoridad de los maridos sobre sus mujeres y de los padres sobre su descendencia. Uno podía ser ejecutado por haber abofeteado a la esposa, ser denunciado por los hijos por haberles pegado

En la misma época, en una carta a Nechaiev, Bakunin se indignaba por tan descabellada idea: «Nuestro pueblo no es una hoja blanca sobre la que cualquier sociedad secreta puede escribir lo que le parezca bien, como por ejemplo su programa comunista»

IN 1692 THE Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft.

the mob and the militia — officially every man between the ages of sixteen and sixty — were one and the same.

Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

A corrupt people would not long remain free. "He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue," he concluded.

Rebecca Nurse's, Mary Esty's, Elizabeth Procter's, and Mary English's mothers had been rumored to be witches.

Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.

A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn't create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he's born into; he may serve them, he may rebel against them, but the object of his service or rebellion comes from the outside. To experience complete freedom in seeking his purposes he would have to be alone, and that's impossible, since a person who isn't brought up among people cannot become a person.

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good, mind you. The rest had to be shoved somewhere out of sight, under the rug. Which History indeed did, at times politely, at times police-ly, and yet something was always sticking out, breaking loose, overthrowing.

Czy je?eli ludo?erca je no?em i widelcem - to post?p?

Mi chiedo se Averroè, Kant, Socrate, Newton, Voltaire avrebbero mai creduto che nel Ventesimo secolo la piaga delle città, l'avvelenatore dei polmoni, l'omicida di massa, l'oggetto di culto sarebbe diventato un carrello di lamiera con le ruote e che le persone avrebbero preferito morire schiantate al suo interno durante gli esodi di massa per i fine settimana, anzichè restarsene tranquillamente a casa.

Im wy?sza w galaktyce cywilizacja, tym wi?cej tam na?miecono.

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

Thus the means of civilization replace its ends, and human conveniences substitute for human values.