Quotes About Society

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

Law and Charity Are Not the Same

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

You say There are persons who have no money, and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk.

But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics...

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.

in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.

An educated people can be easily governed.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.

It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism; perhaps that is due to some weakness in our imagination.

Men destroy countries; Women destroy universes.

In practice, American modernizers tended to be distrustful of populist politics and inclined to favor elite-led societies; often they turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and social control.

In 1922, movies drew some forty million viewers weekly; by 1929 the number approached a hundred million—this at a time when the nation's population was 122 million and weekly church attendance was sixty million.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Vivemos cercados de palavras vãs, condenados a uma civilização que teme o silêncio. Fala-se muito para dizer bem pouco. Jornais, revistas, TV, outdoors, telefone, correio eletrônico - há demasiado palavrório. E sabemos todos que não se dá valor ao que se abusa.

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical

This upper class is disgusting and I'm furious at all these rich people here, having seen thousands of people in abject squalor.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.