Quotes About Society

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.