Quotes About Society

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.

He used to say you can judge a society by how it treats its cats.

The worst aspect of the fear the ayatollahs spread was that Western intellectuals were afraid of admitting that they were afraid. If they had been honest, they would have forced society to confront the fact of censorship. As it was, their silence made the enemies of liberalism stronger.

Sensible countries should treat banks as if they were hostile foreign powers, and enable, protect and honour those who reveal the threats they pose to wider society.

I feel like a class traitor when I say it but the first lesson from the 'heroic' age of the Left in the Thirties is that it never works like that in a conflict in which your own society is involved. You can be a critical friend of one side or another, a very critical friend as often as not, but you have to choose which side you are on, and those who don't usually end up as the biggest villains of all.

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Few liberals have the confidence to say that free speech, like sexual freedom, would not create a terrible society, because they do not trust their fellow citizens.

It's okay, Mara," said Dr. Cross, leaning in close. "Corporations want a society where people have access to the best services. That's how we provide customer service and remain profitable so we can continue to expand and develop. You won't need your braces anymore.

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

don't believe in the fuckin' work ethic. This "work is what life's all about" shit is just a bunch of bollocks, it's just a fuckin' English bourgeois guilt trip invented by the fuckin' English bourgeoisie to keep people in line, y'know, like a bunch of happy fuckin' slaves. Bourgeois guilt means fuckin' nothin' to me.

Democracy and 'progressive democracy' are synonymous, and indistinguishable from the expansion of the state, Since winning elections is overwhelmingly a matter of vote buying, and society's informational organs (education and media) are no more resistant to bribery than the electorate, a thrifty politician is simply an incompetent politician, and the democratic variant of Darwinism quickly eliminates such misfits from the gene pool.

Radical feminists and evolutionists agree that males are a serious cost to society.

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

Humans are tribalistic hypocrites who judge their enemies by their actions but themselves by their intentions.

She wondered why modern creations became uglier faster.

Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition. It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.