Quotes About Society

Aber die ungeheure Gefahr ist, daß Schlendrian und Nachahmung sich auch der Revolutionäre bemächtigen und sie zu Philistern des Radikalismus, des tönenden worts und der Gewaltgebärde machen; daß sie nicht wissen und nicht wissen wollen: die Umwandlung der Gesellschaft kann nur in Liebe, in Arbeit, in Stille kommen.

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence.

It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.

To-day the claims of the masses are becoming more and more sharply defined, and amount to nothing less than a determination to utterly destroy society as it now exists, with a view to making it hark back to that primitive communism which was the normal condition of all human groups before the dawn of civilisation.

Certainly it is possible that the advent to power of the masses marks one of the last stages of Western civilisation, a complete return to those periods of confused anarchy which seem always destined to precede the birth of every new society.

Khi con ng??i n?m trong ?ám ?ông, k? ngu d?t và nhà bác h?c ??u không có kh? n?ng nh?n xét.

To pass in pursuit of an ideal from the barbarous to the civilised state, and then, when this ideal has lost its virtue, to decline and die, such is the cycle of the life of a people.

If, then, crowds often abandon themselves to low instincts, they also set the example at times of acts of lofty morality.

The psychological crowd is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells singly.

Peoples are not governed in accordance with their caprices of the moment, but as their character determines that they shall be governed. Centuries are required to form a political system and centuries needed to change it. Institutions have no intrinsic virtue: in themselves they are neither good nor bad.

The power of crowds is to be dreaded, but the power of certain castes is to be dreaded yet more. Crowds are open to conviction; castes never are.

No se trata de supersticiones de otra época definitivamente expulsadas por la razón. En su eterna lucha contra la razón, el sentimiento no ha sido jamás vencido. Las masas no quieren escuchar ya las palabras divinidad y religión que las han dominado durante tanto tiempo; pero ninguna época las ha visto elevar tantas estatuas y altares como desde hace un siglo.

The crowd state and the domination of crowds is equivalent to the barbarian state, or to a return to it.

The functions of governments necessarily increase in proportion as the indifference and helplessness of the citizens grow.

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

Medeniyetler ?imdiye kadar küçük bir fikir aristokrasisi taraf?ndan meydana getirilmi? ve idare olunmu?tur. Asla kitleler taraf?ndan de?il. Kalabal?klar yaln?z y?k?c? kuvvete sahiptirler.