Quotes About Society

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.