Quotes About Society

Nationalism is like class. You have to have it in order to be rid of it.

Even a whole society," Marx comments, "a nation, or even all simultaneously existing societies together, are not the owners of the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and like boni patres familias [good fathers of families] they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an improved condition.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is.

Men and women do not live by culture alone, the vast majority of them throughout history have been deprived of the chance of living by it at all, and those few who are fortunate enough to live by it now are able to do so because of the labour of those who do not.

Sadece güncel deneyimiyle yaÅŸayan bir uygarl?k esasen çorak bir uygarl?kt?r.

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation.

Under capitalism, we are deprived of the power to decide whether we want to produce more hospitals or more breakfast cereals. Under socialism, this freedom would be regularly exercised.

The distinction between elitism and socialism is in effect one between present and future.

o socialismo exige uma expansão das forças produtivas, mas a tarefa de expandi-las cabe não ao socialismo em si, mas ao capitalismo

Kultura je kroz povijest bila uskra?ena golemoj ve?ini, a onih nekoliko sretnika koji danas od nje žive, žive na ra?un rada onih koji to ne mogu.

Os que perguntam o que haverá de derrubar o capitalismo costumam se esquecer de que, em certo sentido, isso é desnecessário. O capitalismo é perfeitamente capaz de desmoronar sob o peso das próprias contradições sem sequer um microempurrão de seus oponentes

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged, a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Para se tornar socialista, é preciso estar razoavelmente bem de vida, tanto no sentido literal quanto no sentido metafórico do termo

observar que alguns são miseráveis enquanto outros são prósperos é mais ou menos como afirmar que o mundo contém ao mesmo tempo detetives e criminosos. E é verdade, mas isso encobre o fato de que existem detetives porque existem criminosos...

Marx's aim was to close this gap between state and society, politics and everyday life, by dissolving the former into the latter. And this is what he called democracy. Men and women had to reclaim in their daily lives the powers that the state had appropriated from them. Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

It is the nature of capitalism to confound distinctions, collapse hierarchies and mix the most diverse forms of life promiscuously together.

If we do not act now, it seems that capitalism will be the death of us.

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always defend itself against savagery or else fall to it.

Civilization must always defend itself

Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.

People more and more view law and order, and view the police who are representatives of law and order, as oppressors rather than protectors.

medieval monarchs was reassuringly downmarket. For example

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.