Quotes About Society

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society

Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.

Human nature doesn't change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that." He snaps his fingers.

in the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations.

One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, the more similar one's Times became to one's peers'.

while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.

No one thought about the big picture for a few thousand years. We were all scrambling to survive.

This is a terrible country for old people. You put them away in horrible buildings that are completely shut off from life, and then do everything possible to keep them alive. It is a very stupid system.

If the gathering had included more veterans of that elongated state of low-intensity warfare known as Society, this observation would have been keenly made by those soi-disant sentries who stood upon the battlements, keeping vigil against bounders who would struggle their way up the vast glacis separating wage slaves from Equity Participants.

How could a man become a god? Nell asked. By living in an extremely pragmatic society, said Constable Moore after some thought

Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything

Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb.

It's when a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon and into the future in order to get short-term gain—sometimes illusory gain—that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse.

Randy is a member in good standing of American society again, having cheerfully endured the process of being ritually goosed by the Government. He feels a strong impulse to drive straight to the nearest gun store and spend about ten thousand dollars. Not that he wants to hurt anyone; it's just that any kind of government authority gives him the creeps now.

His real job—the job that the Owners paid him for—was to be an observer of the human condition as it was so richly displayed from day to day within these walls.