Quotes About Society

Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

The worth of a society is genuine if established on cardinal law of kingdom–love

I started to find out the path to the HELL in a decent way. Then I realized that now it's been called SOCIETY, and I'm already part of it.

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

On another level compulsion would change matters drastically: the kind of society that would emerge if such acts of redistribution were voluntary is altogether different—and, by our standards, infinitely preferable—to the kind that would emerge if redistribution were compulsory.

That is why, as Adam Smith put it, an individual who intends only his own gain is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

The major way that society has come to agree on the rules of property is through the growth of common law, though more recently legislation has played an increasing role.

You can rigidly enforce only those laws that most people believe to be good laws, that is, laws that proscribe actions that they would avoid even in the absence of laws.

At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.

The view that government's role is to serve as an umpire to prevent individuals from coercing one another was replaced by the view that government's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing

We observe, and are always asking ourselves the question, why it is that in the Western world intellectuals tend to be collectivists. Certainly one reason is that by nature their whole interest is in questioning things, including whatever society they're in. But in a collectivist society they can't speak up because of suppression, whereas in a free society they can. So the only intellectuals heard from tend to be collectivists.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty.

You can not simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

The public at large thinks that government is too big.

People who intend to serve only the public interest are led by an invisible hand to serve private interests which was no part of their intention.

Thomas Moore estimates that their aggregate value in 1972 was between $2 and $3 billion6—a value that corresponds solely to a government-granted monopoly position. It constitutes wealth for the people who own the certificates, but for the society as a whole it is a measure of the loss from government intervention, not a measure of productive capacity.

This is why the whole notion of "geisha houses" being dens of ill repute is so ridiculous. Men are barely allowed inside these bastions of feminine society, let alone permitted to frolic with the inhabitants after they arrive.

I had unwittingly crossed a line. Not only was Hikari-chan an outcast, but she was also a half-breed, fathered out of wedlock by an American GI. It was all too much for Auntie Oima, who couldn't contain her fear that I would be contaminated by association. Keeping my reputation unsullied was one of her major preoccupations.

l'idea di una casa di geisha intesa come covo di malaffare è tanto ridicola. Gli uomini sono a stento ammessi all'interno di questi bastioni della società femminile, figuriamoci se potrebbero mai intrattenersi con uno dei suoi membri

pentru societ??ile moderne -lumea- înseamn? tot mai puÈ›in Cosmos È™i tot mai mult? Istorie

De tot ce se intampla in lume sunt si eu vinovat. Pentru ca nu sunt un om intreg, nu sunt o unitate armonioasa, sunt un ins dezaxat, fara centru. Probabil ca mai sunt si altii, zeci de milioane, ca mine. Si cum pentru societatile moderne lumea inseamna tot mai putin Cosmos si tot mai multa Istorie, iti dai seama ce repercusiuni poate avea dezechilibrul acesta interior in afara de noi. Cum am putea fi creatori in Istorie noi, cateva zeci de milioane de dezechilibrati?

All culture is a "fall" into history...

Since 1960 it has been known that villages preceded the discovery of agriculture.