Quotes About Society

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

Probably throughout history the worst things ever done in the world on a large scale by decent people have been done in the name of religion, and I do not think that has entirely ceased to be true at the present day.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

In a society where the degradation of man was (and is still) being proclaimed, humans defined in lowly terms, and Deity described as an abstract, impersonal concept, the heavens were opened and God and his Son Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and taught him the real nature of man. 14.

But friction is mostly a negative force, socially speaking. It reduces efficiency." "Yes, but that negativity prevents bad plans as much as good ones. That

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Lo que triunfa no es tanto la nostalgia del pasado cuanto la inquietud por la precariedad del futuro.

El homo politicus ha cedido el paso al Homo felix. No se trata ya de cambiar la sociedad, sino de vivir mejor en el presente, uno mismo y los suyos, de ganar dinero, de consumir, irse de vacaciones, viajar, distraerse, hacer deporte, arreglar la casa. Los sueños del gran ocaso se han extinguido y la cosa pública ya no motiva las pasiones más que superficialmente.

Enterramos o machado de guerra a propósito da ditadura do proletariado e da Revolução, mas novos antagonismos surgiram: pena de morte, imigração, prisôes, aborto, droga, eutanásia, energia nuclear, meios de procriação, proteção social, seleção, questões sobre as quais é inútil esperar poder encontrar qualquer unanimidade; nossas sociedades estão entregues ao dilaceramento das perspectivas.

A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

A sociedade de consumo é programação do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

are culture-vultures; but not in the way this phrase is usually used," as Stephen Hugh-Jones, a British anthropologist, explains. "For anthropologists 'culture' is not a matter of refinement of tastes or the intellectual side of civilization; it is the commonly-held ideas, beliefs and practices of any society of any kind.