Quotes About Society

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

To be sure, to impose Reason upon an entire society is a paradoxical and scandalous idea—

Freie« Zeit, keine »Freizeit«. Letztere gedeiht in der fortgeschrittenen Industriegesellschaft, aber ist in dem Maße unfrei, wie sie durch Geschäft und Politik verwaltet wird

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Government is essentially immoral.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.