Quotes About Society

Grafting Western liberal and democratic institutions on an Ottoman agrarian society was bound to be challenging.

As elsewhere, war forged Greeks out of peasants.

Worldly wise I realize that everybody is crazy

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.

The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what you did or did not do in private life was taken for granted - which is hardly imaginable now - and toleration was not, as it is today, deplored as a weakness and debility, but was praised as an ethical force.

The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.

Toplum içinde olduÄŸum zamanlarda da hayranl???m? ifade ederken yapay bir heyecan sergileyip etkileyici ÅŸeyleri abartarak içimin ne kadar hissiz ve kay?ts?z olduÄŸunu gizlemek için bir anlamda gösteri yap?yordum.

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like a faultlessly correct suit of English tailoring, did not make me conspicuous in any way. I believe I was considered pleasant company, I was popular and welcome in society, and most who knew me called me a happy man.

Making music, dancing, the theater, conversation, proper and urbane deportment, these were cultivated here as particular arts. It was not the military, nor the political, nor the commercial, that was predominant in the life of the individual and of the masses.

NI PARÍS, NI NUEVA YORK, sino Viena era el centro del mundo en los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX. Fue en la ciudad del Danubio donde se fraguaron, más que en ningún otro lugar, muchos de los esplendores y los horrores que estaban aún por llegar y que, a la postre, acabarían rotulando nuestro mundo actual y nuestras propias vidas.

como nos ha recordado Ortega en su España invertebrada, o en La rebelión de las masas, el mayor mal de nuestro país consiste en el recelo de la masa recela ante el hombre de grandes virtudes, ante el hombre de espíritu, acogiendo, sin embargo, en su seno solo a profetas mediocres, tanto de un lado como de otro.

como advertencia para otras generaciones, redacta en esos días de soledad su última obra, al mismo tiempo la más grande, De officiis, la enseñanza de las obligaciones que el hombre independiente, el hombre moral, ha de cumplir frente a sí mismo y frente al Estado.

Ich weiß, ich muß dann doch wieder allein sein. Und es gibt nichts Entsetzlicheres, als Alleinsein unter den Menschen.

Tüm dünya yerle bir olurken, insan?n kendisi için çal??mas? bir suç. - Sayfa 12

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

She felt that if she had to spend another year of interesting, congenial work during the days, and sensitive, cultured, intelligent talk in the evenings, she would go mad or die.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.