Quotes About Society

There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.

It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

En el socialismo, el espíritu de solidaridad propuesto tiene como ingrediente necesario la desconfianza y el odio hacia otra sociedad o una parte de otra sociedad. Así, la solidaridad conseguida no es, como se pretendía, una solidaridad en la caridad, sino, al menos parcialmente, una solidaridad en la lucha.

Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.

History is the register of the strife of authorities. Always and everywhere man takes possession of man to bend him to his will and adapt him to his designs; so that society is seen to be a galaxy of authorities which arise, grow, and fight each other.

Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.

The feudal system did much, of course, to perpetuate the subjection of women, it being to the interest of the lord paramount that the fiefs should descend in the male line in those rough ages, when wars and civil feuds were almost perpetual, it was inevitable that the sex with the biggest body and strongest sinews should have the upper hand; the pity is that English gentlemen to-day are content to allow the law to remain unaltered, when the whole face of society has changed.

Indebtedness is the poor man's curse. Just so, it's a county's curse . . . or a state's . . . or a nation's.

The man who slowly walked away from them was a king in their society. A day had come when he had decided that he did not need any kingship other than the kind of wife everybody would loathe from the bottom of their hearts.

You're goig through a neighborhood and there's no people, no grass, no birds, no animals... and it's beautiful but you know how screwed up it is that it looks that way, what it means that it looks that way." - Kit Boggio

On another note - Sarton writes about "people in their thirties mourning their lost youth because we have given them no ethos that makes maturity appear an asset." I very much feel this to be true. Turning twenty-one is the nadir of American achievement, one can get smashed legally, and as there are no further milestones after that, each succeeding birthday reeks of diminishment. People start to lie about their age, as if maturity is a thing to be ashamed of.

I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

we have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on our merry way. Well, I won't have it. We have to stand firm for what we believe in. Only in the most dire circumstances should a structure of historical significance be demolished.

Women never thought beyond the happy ending. We'd been taught to believe that our world revolved around securing a commitment from a man.

Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate.

We are never allowed to forget what the billboards, television, movies and the press would have us remember. From Mademoiselle 1955

No to marriage proposals, in which the concept of "forever," as Florence Nightingale famously said, slid into "never." As in never being wholly oneself; never being permitted to make up one's own mind; never to be able to move about freely.