Quotes About Society

Rome fell because of inner weakness, either social or spiritual; or Rome fell because of outer pressure—the barbarian hordes. What we can say with confidence is that Rome fell gradually and that Romans for many decades scarcely noticed what was happening.

The consulships were not the only ornamental offices in Roman society: the Eternal City was filled with the comings and goings of impotent men—senators, magistrates, bustling administrators of all kinds—performing meaningless duties.

The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.

France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.

Till thirty the Spartans did not suffer a man to marry: but how many men here under thirty; coming to produce not one sufficient citizen, but a nation and a world of such!

Our 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it re- mains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised. —Michael Oakeshott, 19831

Kendimizi sadece sabit kimlikli nesneler olarak görürsek Olmay? b?rak?r?z. Ve kendimizi nesneler olarak görmenin yollar?ndan biri toplumsal rollerle özde?le?mektir. Bu kimliklenmeye Sartre mauvaise foi, yani kötü inanç der.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

But the stream of London, charity flows in a channel which, though deep and mighty, is yet noiseless and underground; not obvious or readily accessible to poor houseless wanderers: and it cannot be denied that the outside air and frame-work of London society is harsh, cruel, and repulsive.

The world in general, gentlemen, are very bloody-minded; and all they want in a murder is a copious effusion of blood; gaudy display in this point is enough for them.

Most of all, he would have been alienated by America's determined, self-centered individualism

One gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun," Orwell charged in "The Lion and the Unicorn." "It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly." Yet

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.