Quotes About Society

Society does not exist apart from the thoughts and actions of people. It does not have "interests" and does not aim at anything. The same is valid for all other collectives.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

IT is the aim of Socialism to transfer the means of production from private ownership to the ownership of organized society, to the State.

The socialistic State owns all material factors of production and thus directs it.

Conversation with them turns only upon women, food, and (in the rainy season) the crops.

Every sort of economic organization needs not only a mechanism for production but also a mechanism for distributing what is produced.

People are anxious to endorse the tenets they consider as fashionable lest they appear boorish and backward.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

wonder if it would be like being forced to wear size two clothes when you are a size twelve. You wouldn't be able to move comfortably. You'd always be aware of the fact that something pinched. There would be wardrobe malfunctions and embarrassment when you thought people were looking at you oddly. You'd be thinking constantly about taking off the outfit just so you could breathe.

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.

I stopped trying to figure out American juries around the same time Adam Sandler movies started raking in millions at the box office--people just don't act predictably.

Sometimes Josie thought of her life as a room with no doors and no windows. It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape. Either Josie was someone she didn't want to be, or she was someone who nobody wanted.

what's morally right is considered wrong...and what's morally wrong, you can get away with.

May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.

In so many ways my entire career has been about untangling the knots that society tangles itself in as we futilely attempt to separate the us from the them.

What is ethical to a lawyer differs from what's ethical to the rest of the world.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either.

Louie's final thought before he passed out was that this was indeed some crazy world, where the waiting period to get an abortion was longer than the waiting period to get a gun.

Che cosa significa essere diversi nella nostra società? Fino a che punto può arrivare il desiderio di vendetta di una vittima? E soprattutto: che diritto ha, chiunque, di giudicare gli altri?