Quotes About Society

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car' it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

as Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

But not for Jefferson. "I view cities as pestilent to the morals, the health, and the liberation of man

Alexis de Tocqueville.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

There is no allusion to marriage or family in the Constitution. It is barely mentioned in the Federalist Papers or elsewhere in the ratification debates. The reason why the founders "ignored" the family was that it was not an issue for them. It was not a social problem. On the contrary, the family was the accepted substratum of society. It

MARRIAGE IS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN INSTITUTION. Virtually every known human society has some form of marriage. 1 While the norms of marriage in different cultures vary considerably, marriage always has something to do with creating a public (not private) sexual union between a man and woman so that socially valued children have both a mother and a father, and so that society has the next generation it needs.

The combination of royal, aristocratic, and democratic power makes only a democracy.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..