Quotes About Society

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;

Perfect she was, but as perfection is Insipid in this naughty world of ours

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Question: What's Detroit without guns? Answer: Cleveland.

Ten cents a dance—That's what they pay me;Gosh, how they weigh me down!Ten cents a dance—Pansies and rough guys,Tough guys who tear my gown!

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. --George Bernard Shaw

You who learned from your mother that in order to keep your own reputation and family intact, sometimes a woman needs to take radical action and look the other way. It's you who chose to believe boys will be boys, especially in groups, and you who put your head in the sand. You who still choose to believe there are slutty females out to lure and entice men expressly to gain favors, and that the men are powerless in the face of free sex and those women are to blame.

What's wrong with me? I'll tell you what's wrong, Daisy. This Waheed guy is brown and I'm white—I'm a white guy nearing middle age and times have changed and everyone needs the optics of diversity.

She's understanding now what women mean when they say females her age seem to disappear.

Normal is a construct. A story people tell themselves. It's what everyone does—feigns some concept of normalcy. Stories people tell themselves are the only reality humans know.