Quotes About Society

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?