Quotes About Society

A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is indeed a portrait, but not of a single individual; it is a portrait composed of all the vices of our generation in the fullness of their development.

Sin duda, era un diletante, pero muy refinado, por lo que, desde el punto de vista social, era una persona más agradable que un artista.

Housing without people, and people without housing.

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

Pornography is the industrialisation of erotism.

Always remember - you work because you don't know how to live. If you knew how to live, you would not work, and science wouldn't exist for you. But everybody taught us only how to work, not how to live. I don't know how to live either.

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…. Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

Nesta terra, só os políticos podem dormir e acordar de bom humor.

People are awful. Drink some beer." Haruki

People are awful. Drink some beer.

There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else. What a messed-up, lousy existence.

in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

How could he marry a sinful woman who would