Quotes About Society

The greatest evil that can oppress civilized peoples derives from wars, not, indeed, so much from actual present or past wars, as from the never-ending and constantly increasing arming for future war.

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

Une politique valable ne peut faire un pas sans rendre hommage à la morale.

A nation is not (like the ground on which it is located) a possession. It is a society of men whom no one other than the nation itself can command or dispose of.

no one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments)

The public use of one's reason must always be free, and it alone can bring about enlightenment among men.

The character of the species, as it is indicated by the experience of all ages and all peoples, is this: that taken collectively (the human race as one whole), it is a multitude of persons, existing successively and side by side, who cannot do without associating peacefully and yet cannot avoid constantly offending one another.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no truly straight thing was ever made.

We are, indeed, fully prepared to believe that the bearing of children may and ought to become as free from danger and long debility to the civilized woman as it is to the savage. —Thomas Huxley

la misma Roma no podía triunfar ninguna democracia sana con un proletariado que se corrompía diariamente en el ocio y con la percepción de subsidios.

Do not forget that every people deserves the government it is willing to endure!

They're trying to make us believe we live in the age of the community, when the individual must perish so that society may live, and we don't want to see that it is society that is dying so the tyrants can live.

De tilhørte nemlig den klassen av det franske høyborgerskapet som heller vil se barna sine uten brød, kjøtt og luft enn uten eksamenspapirer.

In general, you know that I am completely isolated from society and am unaware of all the recently adopted directives regarding the press.

In spite of everything, the thing that links all these people together is our times, solely our times. Is that really enough? I mean: is this link sufficiently felt?

La vita sociale si regge interamente su sfumature.

The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits, sociologist John McKnight

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

Bueno, hay un par de homosexuales; pero eso son anormales normales.

Ugliness didn't have a zip code. Crime happened everywhere.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.