Quotes About Society

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

Only sick music makes money today.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

Oh, what times! Oh, what standards!

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

The iron law of wages.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.