Quotes About Society

No wonder Wonderland isn't funny to read anymore: We live there full time. We need a break from it.

Não se pode separar as particularidades da sua vida da política.

Quanto mais civilizados nos tornamos, mais horrendas são as nossas diversões.

Plus nous devenons civilisés, plus nos amusements se font horribles.

Nunca uso las palabras humanista o humanitario, porque, para mí, el ser humano es capaz de cometer los crímenes más atroces de la naturaleza.

Eu nunca uso as palavras humanista ou humanitário, pois me parece que ser humano significa ser capaz dos crimes mais hediondos da natureza.

I do not listen when anyone uses the word "immoral". In the young it is ridiculous. In the old, it is sententious and reactionary. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

I do not listen when anyone uses the word 'immoral'. In the young it is ridiculous. In the old, it is sententious and reactionary. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments," said Frex.

I am married,' she said, 'just not to a man.

she heard Mrs. Brummidge hiss at Rhoda, "Unseemly!" with the same tone of scandal she might have used had she been saying "Strumpet!" or "Baptist!

She eagerly meets society's rules and laws until they conflict with her own inner sense of justice—at which point she rejects them.

He knew that sick land meant a sick society, that the loss of biodiversity meant the end of life

A.I. is actually the fastest path to communism

Bourgeois do not even suspect that we serve them our hearts. The race of gladiators has not died: every artist is one. He amuses the public with his afflictions.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There'll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)

What vast funds of indifference society possesses

So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?

Dans leurs regards indifférents flottait la quiétude de passions journellement assouvies ; et, à travers leurs manières douces, perçait cette brutalité particulière que communique la domination de choses à demi faciles, dans lesquelles la force s'exerce et où la vanité s'amuse, le maniement des chevaux de race et la société des femmes perdues.

It is a wonderful thing, how no one will allow anyone to live as he likes.

This is indeed a funny country. Yesterday, for example, we were in a cafe which is one of the best in Cairo, and there were, at the same time as ourselves, inside, a donkey shitting, and a gentleman who was pissing in a corner. No one finds that odd; no one says anything.

one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us