Quotes About Society

Voting is a fundamental right and an important duty in our society.

You can make a positive impact on society and the environment without sacrificing returns.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

In England Ö education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy.

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.