Quotes About Society

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

He who longs for "perfect communication" among individuals, their reciprocal "perfect transparency," their mutual "perfect possession," as a certain high priest of the left does, longs for the perfect totalitarian society.

It is possible to inculcate in the contemporary bourgeois any stupid idea in the name of progress and to sell him any grotesque object in the name of art.

La inflación trepó en 1967 al 41%. Y mientras que en la gestión de Alessandri el 50% de las inversiones eran hechas por el Estado, ya por 1966 las mismas ascendían al 80%. Crecía el desempleo, las acciones en la bolsa se desplomaban y comenzaba a aflorar un descontento que abarcaba a todas las clases sociales.

tertulia inaceptable para la Academia Sueca, siendo que en las últimas décadas para ser galardonado en literatura no importa tanto que el premiado sea talentoso o un idiota, sino que lo gravitante es que sea de izquierda o que al menos sea funcional a ella.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Love, as it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.

In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.

Economists are surgeons who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.

Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.

Society is not, as is commonly supposed, the development of nature, but rather her dismantling and entire recasting. It is a second building made from the ruins of the first.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

L'homme, dans l'état actuel de la société, me paraît plus corrompu par sa raison que par ses passions. Ses passions (j'entendes ici celles qui appartiennent à l'homme primitif) ont conservé, dans l'ordre social, le peu de nature qu'on y retrouve encore.

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la Société, n'est que l'échange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux épidermes.

Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.

Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

Porn and gaming have become the bread and circuses of the internet.

Loving a woman is always political.