Quotes About Society

In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter. Try

In a society composed of pure intelligences there would probably be no more tears, though perhaps there would still be laughter; whereas highly emotional souls, in tune and unison with life, in whom every event would be sentimentally prolonged and re-echoed, would neither know nor understand laughter.

Talvez não mais se chorasse numa sociedade em que só houvesse puras inteligências, mas provavelmente se risse; por outro lado, almas invariavelmente sensíveis, afinadas em uníssono com a vida, numa sociedade onde tudo se estendesse em ressonância afetiva, nem conheceriam nem compreenderiam o riso.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Et c'est le malheur des femmes, que les hommes supportent la négligence chez un homme, mais que chez les femmes elle leur fasse horreur.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

a point of arrival for existing knowledge and a point of departure for a new study and new projects: complete urbanization. The hypothesis is anticipatory. It prolongs the fundamental tendency of the present. Urban society is gestating in and through the "bureaucratic society of controlled consumption.

Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.

Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do urbano […]

It is to be noted that a deserted street at four o'clock in the afternoon has as strong a significance as the swarming of a square at market or meeting times.

for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Liberty, equality bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.