Quotes About Society

Les belles âmes ne peuvent pas rester longtemps en ce monde. Comment les grands sentiments s'allieraient-ils, en effet, à une société mesquine, petite, superficielle ?

Everything can be excused and justified in an age which has transformed vice into virtue and virtue into vice.

Paris is a queer place," said Lucien; it seemed to him that he saw self-interest squatting in every corner.

In the first place, my child, from what you have yourself told me, it is clear that the one unpardonable sin in society is to be happy.

Money brings everything to you; even your daughters.

Some hunt heiresses, others a legacy; some fish for souls, yet others sell their clients, bound hand and foot. Every one who comes back from the chase with his game-bag well filled meets with a warm welcome in good society.

Increase the number of honest women and diminish the number of celibates, as much as you choose, you will always find that the result will be a larger number of gallant adventurers than of honest women.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass, like a dispensable part of society whose needs the government has ignored. As a result, she often develops a sense of devaluation and unworthiness even more profound than that of the daughter whose mother has died.

Such, then, were the men in whose hands lay the welfare of the country. And, it must be confessed, they knew but little and cared still less about the common people for whom they legislated.

The people are a many-headed beast.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

The words with which a breakdown is treated are all medicalised - illness, treatment, nurse, doctor, meds - but the mechanism of treatment belongs to retribution: incarnation, surveillance, behaviour monitoring, parole. For crimes against normality, we get a label and a chemical life sentence. I hate this mechanism. I refuse to believe in it.

S? nu d?m deci vina pe politicieni: r?ul începe cu noi, cei care distrugem natura, murd?rim str?zile, facem irespirabile blocurile, transform?m în haznale spa?iile publice ?i ne umilim cu sete ?i sadism semenii. R?ul începe de la scara blocului.

De ce accept?m s? coabit?m cu mîrlanii, cu guja?ii, cu escrocii, cu nesim?i?ii? De ce?!!! Democra?ie f?r? discriminare moral? e populism, adic? contrariul spiritului civil. (...) Canaliile, pro?tii, ignarii, scandalagii, inep?ii au devenit deodat?, cu to?ii, din vina noastr?, a civiliza?iilor, frecventabili. E aberant, e complet gre?it. Cu derbedeii nu te înso?e?ti, darmite s? te înh?itezi.

tr?im într-o ?ar? în care nu r?ul este umbra binelui, ci binele este umbra r?ului, o ?ar? în care, a?a cum spunea Ernest Bernea dup? ce a ie?it din lunga sa închisoare politic?, oamenii nu pot fi decît ori cîini b?tu?i, ori lichele.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

There are no righteous societies; there are simply different degrees of depravity. To