Quotes About Society

God—who in that part of London society was of course firmly held to be an Englishman—naturally approved the spread of the language as an essential imperial device;

Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.

Society was supposed to be better than its criminals, never stooping to their level of depravity.

The city is the teacher of the man.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Leopardi aveva ragione: gli Italiani sono alla pari dei popoli più progrediti tranne che per due aspetti fondamentali: l'alfabetizzazione e una totale confusione delle idee

The city is teacher of the man.

Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Rich guys driving big SUV's While kids are starving in the streets No one cares No one likes to share I guess life's unfair

It Can't Happen Here.

His name was George F. Babbitt [and]… he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.