Quotes About Society

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

Thug Life to me is dead.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular

Think wise, beautiful thoughts. Life is a journey to discover about. See fairly. Believe you'll be on the right track of this society. Be and feel perfect, that all your imperfections within you can't break you.

Your life purpose is to use your own personal transformation to help transform society. Once mentored by another, you will now mentor others.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Its hard to be yourself in a world that wants you to be like them.

It takes a great of courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people.

I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else.

Never change yourself to conform to society's shackles and chains! Your uniqueness will always make you beautiful

You cant even have a good laugh anymore without people being upset. Lighten up people!

M. de Charlus and M. de Sidonia had each of them immediately detected the other's vice, which was in both cases that of soliloquising in society, to the extent of not being able to stand any interruption. Having decided at once that, in the words of a famous sonnet, there was 'no help,' they had made up their minds not to be silent but each to go on talking without any regard to what the other might say.

Moreover and above all, a considerable interval of time had elapsed during which, if, from the historical point of view, events had, to some extent, seemed to justify the Dreyfusard argument, the anti-Dreyfusard opposition had doubled its violence, and, from being purely political, had become social. It was now a question of militarism, of patriotism, and the waves of anger that had been stirred up in society had had time to gather the force which they never have at the beginning of a storm.

In Guermantes, the narrator, admitted to the Duchesse's society after he has been cured of his infatuation with her, tends to record what he sees and hears, to note the disparity between glamour seen from a distance and the triviality it masks when encountered at close quarters.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

If I stress this episode, it is because it sets the scene for the kind of activity the narrator is to observe with some bafflement in the salons and dinner parties he is to attend. The point is emphasized in the predilection of society people for the theatricals, recitations, and fancy-dress balls that are frequently referred to.

You hadn't heard 'Teaser Augustus'?" the Princesse d'Épinay would ask. "But of course," the Marquise de Bavano would reply with a blush, "the Princesse de Sarsina-La Rochefoucauld told me about it, but not in quite the same terms. But it must have been so much more interesting to hear it repeated like that in the company of my cousin," she added, as though she had been speaking of a song accompanied by the composer himself.

The progress of civilization enables each one of us to manifest unsuspected virtues or new vices, which make us either dearer or more unbearable to our friends.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.