Quotes About Society

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura. (how society is, such is literature)

People have to be motivated to contribute to the society, to produce. At the same time, they have to be protected if they are unable to take care of themselves. If the first is more important you're roughly a Republican the second Democrat.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Le persone si riconoscono nelle loro merci; trovano la loro anima nella loro automobile, nel giradischi ad alta fedeltà, nella casa a due piani, nell'attrezzatura della cucina. Lo stesso meccanismo che lega l'individuo alla sua società è mutato, e il controllo sociale è radicato nei nuovi bisogni che esso ha prodotto.

Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before– which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before.

Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.

For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a nonterroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It

The true history of mankind will be, in the strict sense, the history of free individuals, so that the interest of the whole will be woven into the individual existence of each.

Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory. Remembrance is a mode of dissociation from the given facts, a mode of "mediation" which breaks, for short moments, the omnipresent power of the given facts. Memory recalls the terror and the hope that passed. Both come to life again, but whereas in reality, the former recurs in ever new forms, the latter remains hope.

ütopya" olarak suçlanan ÅŸey art?k "yeri olmayan" ve tarihsel evren içerisinde yeri olamayacak olan ÅŸey deÄŸil, fakat daha çok, meydana gelmesi yerleÅŸik toplumlar?n güçleri taraf?ndan engellenen ÅŸeydir.

MutluluÄŸun öznel duygulardan fazlas?n? talep eden nesnel bir durum olduÄŸu düÅŸüncesi etkin bir ÅŸekilde bulan?klaÅŸt?r?lm??t?r; bu düÅŸüncenin geçerliliÄŸi "insan" türünün samimi dayan??mas?na baÄŸl?d?r, ki bu dayan??may? kar??t s?n?flara ve uluslara bölünmüÅŸ bir toplum gösteremez.

öÄŸrenci hareketi özgür bir toplumun gerçek gereksinimi ve gerçek olana??d?r.

Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy.

The new sensibility has become, by this very token, praxis: it emerges in the struggle against violence and exploitation where this struggle is waged for essentially new ways and forms of life: negation of the entire Establishment, its morality, culture; affirmation of the right to build a society in which the abolition of poverty and toil terminates in a universe where the sensuous, the playful, the calm, and the beautiful become forms of existence and thereby the Form of the society itself.

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.