Quotes About Society

Aristocratic titles mattered less and less nowadays.

Odraslele regale se bucurau de toate lucrurile bune ale vie?ii, mai pu?in de libertate.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad.

A transfer of power from one faction to another faction within the same class is called a coup, and this changes nothing. A transfer of power from one class to another is called a revolution, and this does change things.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws." "The

When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me--and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more general word than the other one... I got sick... It was the feeling that the great, deadly pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the great voice of millions chanting, Shame. Shame. Shame. It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.

They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Mr. McMurphy... my friend... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. Oh, don't misunderstand me, we're not in here because we are rabbits?we'd be rabbits wherever we were?we're all in here because we can't adjust to our rabbithood. We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place.

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me — and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

Man will do away with anything that threatens him with loneliness—even himself.

We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.

Harding) I indulged in certian practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn't the practices, I don't think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me - and the great voice of millions chanting, 'Shame. Shame. Shame.' It's society's way of dealing with someone different.

Sometimes a manipulator's own ends are simply the actual disruption of the ward for the sake of disruption. There are such people in our society.

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme

Now they tell me a psychopath's a guy fights too much and fucks too much, but they ain't wholly right, do you think?