Quotes About Society

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

Our grandchildren will live together in a society with the offspring of neglected families. So will yours.

The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

As to the 1,150,000,000 of the colored world, they are divided, as already stated, into four primary categories: yellows, browns, blacks, and reds.

Published April, 1920

Great War was from the first the White Civil War,

The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized and vitalized. If

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

we have red triangles as politicals, so we let the

Well, there now,' sighed Miss Malvina. 'Everyone else can go off into the world, but we're doomed to stay here and live.

Mam wra?enie, jakby ten kraj naprawd? umiera?. -Tyle lat szarpaniny. Zestarzeli?my si?, skapcanieli?my wydaj?c te nasze pó?legalne biuletyny, odezwy, które ma?o kto czyta. Owszem, m?odzie?. Ale m?odzie? ?eni si?, p?odzi dzieci, kupuje ma?ego fiata, wydzier?awia dzia?eczk?, sadzi pomidory. Zalewa nas mieszcza?stwo, sowieckie mieszcza?stwo.

?e te? w tym kraju ka?dy kelner jest filozofem i ka?dy filozof kelnerem.

In other words, she reflected, they hadn't known the hardship or the happiness of true conjugal life. But if only they'd been aware that they were lovers, and not husband and wife, and lived out their relationship as it really was, their experience might have been totally different. True, they might have been ostracized, and they would have lost their easy tranquillity — but they might also have felt a keener, more intense kind of joy.

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

The concept of the secular cannot do without the idea of religion.

The state is not a cause but an articulation of secularization.

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.

War is not civilized.

We live in a world that worships limitations