Quotes About Society

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

the police, that shield of civilization...

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Being a woman seemed to mean listening to the music boys liked and neither dancing nor singing along.

She had no idea what rung she occupied now, being not quite a servant yet not the same as well-bred people. But she didn't think she would like to be in society.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

For the robot classes and masses are only kept sane by the kindness of living women and men.

I am going where turtles win I am going where conmen puke and die Down the sad esplanades of the official world.

I wish to descend in the social scale. High society is low society. I am a social climber climbing downward And the descent is difficult. (- Junkman's Obbligato)

They were unmasked now, I saw them all for what they were, little sons and daughters of the eternal poor, the Lumpenproletariat, made only for slavery, for continued slavery. They wanted 'liberty' for everyone, in the abstract, but they couldn't give full liberty to anyone to act on his own!

I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth... without taxes

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

El modelo que inspiraba esa idea se había olvidado hacía mucho tiempo: era el «tercer estado» de los franceses que se rebelaron en 1789 contra el primer y segundo estados de la nobleza y el clero.

En su libro Estrategia moderna (Modern Strategy) apuntó diecisiete factores a tener en cuenta: la gente, la sociedad, la cultura, la política, la ética, la economía y la logística, la organización, la administración, la información y la inteligencia, la teoría estratégica y la doctrina, la tecnología, la operatividad, el mando, la geografía, la fricción / el azar / la incertidumbre, el adversario y el tiempo.

el peligro del «amable robot», una criatura nacida en la sociedad de masas con la ilusión de la libertad, pero incapaz de influir en nada en las grandes estructuras del poder. «Entre la escasa conciencia del hombre y los temas de nuestro tiempo, parece existir un velo de indiferencia. Su voluntad parece anestesiada; su vitalidad, encogida».

Lenin fue capaz de montar una campaña muy oportuna para hacerse con el poder aprovechando las ventajas de un partido organizado, un estado desorganizado y una sociedad civil débil.

Constitutional Law is merely politics made incomprehensible to the common man.