Quotes About Society

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Les gens ne sont pas bons, mais la bonté existe et il y a des gens qui l'attrapent.

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

Intr-o faimoasa previziune, A. Huxley a ironizat spiritele prefabricate: de la nasterea sa, copilul este conditionat prin difuzoare care ating subconstientul sau, apoi de scoala si societate care il orienteaza infailibil spre sertarul care ii este destinat. El a propovaduit educatia contra propagandei: formarea spiritelor inzestrate cu putere de alegere, a oamenilor constienti si responsabili.

chapitre xvii Que disent les philosophes Dans toutes les civilisations, philosophes et penseurs se sont donné pour objectif de reléguer ou de contenir l'agressivité et d'en prémunir autant que possible les sociétés humaines. Tout au moins jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine.

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

Mais la société n'est pas davantage apte à canaliser les pulsions agressives qui caractérisent la puberté, car les réponses institutionnelles ont elles-mêmes disparu : le scoutisme, les patronages, les mouvements d'action catholique, les mouvements de jeunesse laïques, les Jeunesses musicales de France… Que reste-t-il de tout cela aujourd'hui ? Le service militaire lui-même a disparu ; or il représentait une sorte de rite initiatique au moment où le jeune

the institution of afternoon tea is suffering in an England that grows more American every day,

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.