Quotes About Society

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

Let's face it, Thoreau; you can't live in America today and be quietly different. If you are going to be different, you are going to stand out, and people are going to hear about you; and in your case, if they hear about you, they will remove you to the city or move to you and you won't be different anymore.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Essa angústia, prolongando-se, arriscava-se a desagregar uma sociedade, assim como pode fender um indivíduo submetido a estresses repetidos. Podia provocar um fenômeno de inadaptação, uma regressão do pensamento e da afetividade, uma multiplicação das fobias; introduzir uma dose excessiva de negatividade e desespero. JEAN DELUMEAU: HISTÓRIA DO MEDO NO OCIDENTE

Un omagiu ironic adus moravurilor u?oare ale timpului.

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

La belleza es pura secreción de la cultura como los cálculos lo son del riñón

counted themselves among California's established

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Un mâle qui en baise un autre est un double mâle

She no longer rubbed shoulders with clouds and heights, sunset and dawn, but with men stinking of goat.

La sociedad construida sobre el dinero destruye las cosechas, destruye a los animales, destruye a los hombres, destruye la alegría, destruye el mundo auténtico, destruye la paz, destruye las riquezas verdaderas

We're not Christians, we're capitalists," he said. "Everybody in this whangdanged country is a capitalist, whether he likes it or not. Everyone in this country is one of the world's most voracious consumers, using resources at a rate twenty times greater than that of anyone else on this poor earth. And Christmas is our golden opportunity to pick up the pace.

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

Jennifer thought it must be abnormal for such a young child to be thinking about diets, let alone wanting boys to like her for being "pretty" and "sexy.

In the course of its development, civilization eliminates heroism.

It's always a mere handful of men who account for the masses, and nothing great, alas, has ever emerged from peace, neither a nation- as Amar has just pointed out- nor a great work. Peace has always been the reign of mediocrities, and pacifism the bleating of a herd of sheep which allow themselves to be led to the slaughter-house with defending themselves.