Quotes About Society

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind

My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Das erinnert zugleich daran, dass der Zusammenhang von Bildung und Glaube oder Religion heute im Blick auf die multireligiöse Situation in unserer Gesellschaft analysiert und erörtert werden muss.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

L'homme moderne, voulant échapper à tous les maux, tombe finalement dans tous.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone

Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading level of conformity in virtually every facet of our lives?

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

More surveillance cameras then followers lately.

Margaret Crawford, "The World in a Shopping Mall," in Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, ed. Michael Sorkin (New York: Noonday Press, 1992), p.

All boys belong in insane asylums.

If you had to shoot a man, society had already failed.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice.

City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.

I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires," Bluth said. "But I don't see why we need people to use fancy words." "Shhhh," Shallan said. "Don't say that so loudly. If the lighteyes hear, they might stop wasting their time making up new words, and instead start interfering with the business of honest men.