Quotes About Society

according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.

The State is also subject to the law of Malthus. It is continually living beyond its means, it increases in proportion to its means, and draws its support solely from the substance of the people. Woe to the people who are incapable of limiting the sphere of action of the State.

J'ai mis longtemps à admettre que je ne m'étais marié que pour les autres, que le mariage n'est pas quelque chose que l'on fait pour soi-même. On se marie pour énerver ses amis ou faire plaisir à ses parents, souvent les deux, parfois l'inverse

Comment ai-je pu laisser les apparences dicter ma vie à ce point-là? On dit souvent qu'« il faut sauver les apparencez ». Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le sen moyen d'être sauvé. »

Cunoa?te?i diferen?a dintre boga?i ?i s?raci? S?racii vând droguri pentru ca s?-?i cumpere Nike, iar boga?ii vând Nike pentru ca s?-?i cumpere droguri.

Tôi ?ang s?ng trong m?t th? gi?i v?i vã t?i n?i ng??i ta s?n sàng tr? ti?n cho c?nh t??ng b?t ??ng.

Quittant Neuilly pour Paris XVIe, nous sommes entrés dans une vitesse sans mémoire, la rapidité des gens qui n'ont plus de temps à perdre, ou plutôt : nous inventions une nouvelle bourgeoisie qui n'avait plus le luxe de s'intéresser au temps perdu.

Und ich dachte, ich will einzigartig sein! Ich will nicht einzigartig sein, das ist doch jeder.

El matrimonio es criminal porque mata el misterio.

Mesajul c?r?ii? (,,De veghe în lanul de secar?") Fie de conformezi stilului de via?? al clasei de mijloc, fie sfâr?e?ti la azil. Îcepând din 1951, orizontul spiritelor libere în sistemul capitalist este spitalul de psihiarie.

Ya no es la publicidad la que imita a la vida, es la vida la que copia la publicidad. Cadillacs de color rosa con los bajos iluminados

De ce alerg?m to?i dup? frumuse?e? Pentru c? e atât de urât? încât î?i vine s? ver?i.

Ainsi va la grande chaîne du mépris publicitaire : le réalisateur méprise l'agence, l'agence méprise l'annonceur, l'annonceur méprise le public, le public méprise son voisin.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

C'était l'époque où une de ces phrases saisonnières dont la France était friande traînait sur toutes les lèvres : "L'enfer, c'est les autres." Pour moi, au contraire, l'enfer, je le vérifiais à mes dépens, c'est d'être toujours autre soi-même, au point d'être de nulle part.

François Furstenberg

Charlemagne was, indeed, a conqueror and a despot; but by his conquests and his personal power he, so long as he was by, that is, for six and forty years, saved Gallo-Frankish society from barbaric invasion without and anarchy within. That is the characteristic of his government and his title to glory.

Lesson no. 12: It's harder to be happy in a country run by bad people.

Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.

Finally, Vienna was the only city in the world in which artists and intellectuals made no attempt to revolt against the bourgeois élite. On the contrary, they remained for a long time perfectly integrated with it. Together they formed a coherent and complete stratum of society in which everyone knew everyone else, and all were united in cultivating 'art for art's sake'.

All theatre is political -- just as all other activities of human beings are political -- because theatre is not autonomous and must thus decide whose interests it serves.