Quotes About Society

A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

This horse is good for him. Good for his self-respect. You can't ride a horse and feel altogether worthless, or be altogether convinced that society's little world is the last world.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain that the virtuous.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficiencies. But our task is to discern the sort of error or deficiency.

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Man was formed for society.

A greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery,Foot-in-the-grave young man!

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list—I've got a little list.Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed—who never would be missed.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes!Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses.

Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process.

D. W. Winnicott, un psychanaliste et pédiatre anglais: "Se réfugier dans la normalité, ce n'est pas la santé." (p.96)

Sexual feeling is distinct from affection, even though they often conspire, but this fact runs against the grain of classic feminist arguments.

we can't escape the erotic vocabulary of our culture any more than we can escape language itself.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.