Quotes About Society

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.