Quotes About Society

Human nature can't be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it's the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.

In truth, the natural state of humanity was chaos. The Americans had just managed to hold it at bay over most of their short history.

The United States was as weak as it had been in human memory. Its people were unconcerned with anything but their own selfish needs and had turned their political system into just another source of cheap entertainment.

America's ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger.

America? It was being taken over by corrupt politicians, a mainstream media bent on whipping up divisions, and an Internet full of crazies.

You have every cause for anxiety. We are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society.

to be Hungarian is not to belong to a people, but instead it's an illness, an incurable, frightening disease, a misfortune of epidemic proportions that could overcome every single observer with nausea

every human culture is created by fear

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Nothing is ever a lady's fault. - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley

The government thinks the psychologists can keep the population under control.

Anybody can sue anybody for anything in this country and usually does. There's a whole segment of the population that makes its living just suing anybody for anything they can dream up. It's pretty brutal.

The answer is to decriminalize and to ignore drugs. They don't profit people then and nobody is interested.

Drugs are a rotten business. But when you pass a law against them they become

Today almost any person has a present time problem, growing more pressing as time goes on and as our society evolves. It is a simple question: 'How can I live?' The answer to this question in a broad general way can be found by attaining an understanding of a subject called Economics.

While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation.

Boys get to do what they want in this world, and girls do not.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.