Quotes About Society

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles." VFD

Rich young troublemakers. The western world is full of such people.

What do the British care about Churchill's reputation; they have history books full of such men. Democracy is the fabric from which their society is woven.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

in the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations ... relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum-total of these relations of production consti- tutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society

If everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.

My role in society, or any artist or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

With overpopulation, human misery, and the threat of war increasing, we need rather more adult performances from society.

For the first time ever, women are scoring higher than men on IQ tests. Scientists say it has something to do with breast implants -- not that it makes the women smarter, it just makes the men dumber.

Women will soon be able to make their own sperm using their own bone marrow. Is that unbelievable? How unfair is that for us guys, huh? I mean, all these years, we've been in charge of manufacturing and distribution, you know what I'm saying? We provide free delivery and installation.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

Generations of girls had to suffer excruciating pain because somebody unknown had decreed that big feet were unacceptable in upper-class society. It was high time that somebody tried to stop this senseless practice. I was proud that Xueyan and I were among the first to rebel.