Quotes About Society

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Man is a social animal.

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and "Chuck 'im out, the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.