Quotes About Society

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

There are solutions to the major problems of our time; some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, our values. And, indeed, we are now at the beginning of such a fundamental change of worldview in science and society, a change of paradigms as radical as the Copernican revolution. Unfortunately, this realization has not yet dawned on most of our political leaders, who are unable to "connect the dots," to use a popular phrase.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Je me demandais comment il était possible que notre monde ne soit plus qu'une accumulation de défauts.

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Jew hatred was overwhelmingly religious in nature and began to wane only in the age of enlightened absolutism in Western and Central Europe. Still, Gentiles and Jews had extremely limited contact in society. Jews had to live in ghettos in some cities and were entirely forbidden from even entering certain others.

To understand anti-Semitism within Germany's Gentile majority, one has to talk about the skills, educational fervor, and rapid social rise of striking numbers of German Jews. Only then will the contrast emerge between them and the relatively lethargic German majority, revealing why anti-Semitism could gain so large a foothold in German society. Only then can we see anti-Semites as people motivated in large part by jealousy and resentment.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

They add up to one thing: the building of world socialism.

Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Society can be a bitch." "And is by no means always right. Society can't know you like you know yourself. So don't let society be the judge of your actions. Only you can judge you.