Quotes About Society

Totalitarian society is the common name for the social species whose scientific name is industrial society. The embryo today allows us to foresee the adult animal's deformity.

Sociological categories authorize us to move about in society without paying attention to each man's irreplaceable individuality. Sociology is the ideology of our indifference toward our neighbor.

No sentir la putrefacción del mundo moderno es indicio de contagio

With the appearance of "rational" relations among individuals the process of a society's decay begins.

El psicólogo habita los suburbios del alma, como el sociólogo la periferia de la sociedad.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

La condición suficiente y necesaria del despotismo es la desaparición de toda especie de autoridad social no conferida por el Estado.

Alle Welt ist heute links. Welche Erleichterung!

Vulgarity is not a product of the people but a subproduct of bourgeois prosperity.

The modern world will not be punished. It is the punishment.

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

We disapprove of capitalism not because it promotes inequality, but because it favors the rise of inferior human types.

Between the dictatorship of technology and the technology of dictatorship, man no longer finds a crack through which he can slip away.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

Let us not expect the rebirth of civilization as long as man has not again learnt to feel humiliated when he devotes himself to economic tasks.

Between animal and man there is no barrier but a palisade of taboos.

That Christianity cures social diseases, as some say, or that, on the contrary, it poisons the society that adopts it, as others assert, are theses that interest the sociologist but are of no interest for a Christian. A convert to Christianity has converted because he believes it is true.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.

An aristocratic society is one where the desire for personal perfection is the animating spirit of the social institutions.