Quotes About Society

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

Civilization is paralysis.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.