Quotes About Society

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

People would rather be equal thank free.

We live in a society where those that do the greatest damage to humanity and nature reap the greatest financial rewards.

Civilisation and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.

In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".

Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

in these shitty plastic days ...

I love humanity, surprisingly, as I observe 21st century with hawk eyed vision, I realize the more I love humanity the less I love Human as an individual.

It wasn't the wild animals that scared her, but the civilised ones.

Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.