Quotes About Society

She did worse than break the law, she broke the rules

La sociedad de consumo convirtió a la humanidad en una inmensa multitud materialista a la cual la simple idea de sacrificio le hacía temblar. Las fiestas, la televisión, la avidez de tenerlo todo, de poder pagar todo lo que se ve, de no someterse nunca a ninguna moral limitativa, de incluso hartarse de los ancianos (carga pesada) o de los niños (obstáculos), han enviado a la civilización occidental al declive

No nation, no matter how powerful and great and whatever be its form of government, can long withstand the stranglehold of moral deterioration in its people.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Property is the pivot of civilization.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

fascism comes only when the working class shows complete incapacity to take into its own hands the fate of society.

Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms. Movie stars go to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organized its State apparatus for the oppression of the overwhelming majority of the workers, we are making the first attempt in world history to organize labor in the interests of the laboring majority itself.

Culture feeds on the sap of economics, and a material surplus is necessary, so that culture may grow, develop and become subtle.

A single, government, the necessary condition of stability in any régime, is preserved so long as the ruling class succeeds in putting over its economic and political forms upon the whole of society the only forms possible.

The revolution lays out the ground for a new society. But it does so with the methods of the old society, with the class struggle, with violence, destruction and annihilation. If the proletarian revolution had not come, mankind would have been strangled by its own contradictions. The revolution saved society and culture, but by means of the most cruel surgery.

An army is always a copy of the society it serves- with the difference that it gives social relations a concentrated character, carrying both their positive and negative features to an extreme.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.

In most cases, as the examples suggest, the members of rich families watched

however, constitutes a new historical phenomenon.

In every society, these resources are allocated unequally.

THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE UNITED STATES LEONARD BEEGHLEY

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

Just as art is the concealment of art, laissezfaire is the concealment of tremendous generosity.

There is only one emotion which money has ever extended to idealism - contempt." - Loneliness and History

Take the only tree that's left And stuff it up the hole In your culture