Quotes About Society

Society is full of varieties, is this possible to make all of them sensitive? Then there will be no politics.

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.