Quotes About Society

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.,

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Property is organized robbery.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.