Quotes About Society

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

A husband who submits to his wifes yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A womans influence ought to be entirely concealed.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.

Hélas! Nous ne manquons jamais d'argent pour nos caprices, nous ne discutons que le prix des choses utiles ou nécessaires; nous jetons l'or avec insouciance à des danseuses, et nous marchandons un ouvrier dont la famille affamée attend la paiement d'un mémoire. Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant à la pomme de leur canne, et dinent à vingt-cinque sous? Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez chèrementles plaisirs de la vanité

What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

There will be nothing you may not aspire to; you will go everywhere, and you will find out what the world is — an assemblage of fools and knaves.

The differences between a soldier, an artisan, a man of business, a lawyer, an idler, a student, a statesman, a merchant, a sailor, a poet, a beggar, a priest, are as great, though not so easy to define, as those between the wolf, the lion, the ass, the crow, the shark, the seal, the sheep, etc. Thus social species have always existed, and will always exist, just as there are zoological species.

J'ai été enterré sous les morts ; mais, maintenant, je suis enterré sous des vivants, sous des actes, sous des faits, sous la société tout entière, qui veut me faire rentrer sous terre!

Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.

La Société ne fait-elle pas de l'homme, suivant les milieux où son action se déploie, autant d'hommes différents qu'il y a de variétés en zoologie ? [...] Il a donc existé, il existera donc de tout temps des Espèces Sociales comme il y a des Espèces Zoologiques.

Pourquoi deux mois de prison au dandy qui, dans une nuit, ôte à un enfant la moitié de sa fortune, et pourquoi le bagne au pauvre diable qui vole un billet de mille francs avec les circonstances aggravantes ? Voilà vos lois. Il

Why did the father of these poor girls, the Comte de Granville, a wise and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics), refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one roof. The father had taken upon himself the education of his sons, leaving that of the daughters to his wife.

Le char de la civilisation, semblable à celui de l'idole de Jaggernaut, à peine retardé par un cœur moins facile à broyer que les autres et qui enraye sa roue, l'a brisé bientôt et continue sa marche glorieuse.

La sociedad, el mundo, nuestras costumbres, vistos de cerca, me han revelado el peligro de mi creencia inocente y la superfluidad de mis fervientes trabajos. Estas provisiones son inútiles al ambicioso. ¡El que persigue la fortuna ha de llevar poco peso en la mochila!

adore à genoux quand on n'a pas pu l'enterrer sous la boue. La corruption est en force, le talent est rare. Ainsi, la corrup- tion est l'arme de la médiocrité qui abonde, et vous en sentirez partout la pointe.

Toplumu, aç?kgöz davran?p herkesin zarar?na kendi mutlulu?unu kurma kuram?yla aç?klamak y?k?c? bir ö?retidir,bunun a??r ç?kar?mlar?, yasaya, insanlara ya da bireye verdi?i zarar? bile belli etmeden, gizlice elde edilen her ?eyin iyi ve uygun biçimde kazan?ld???na inand?r?r insan?.