Quotes About Society

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Born free. Taxed to death.

The whole point of view of the anarchist is that everything must start from the bottom up, from man. It seems to me so human a philosophy.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy - the kind of ride where some people puke and others can't wait to get on again.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.