Quotes About Society

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Politics is applied biology.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.