Quotes About Society

No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.

Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!

Han er kanske likeså lykkelig som vi andre, han trænger litt mat, nogen klær og et helgenbillede; men den lille stemmerett i landsbyen er ham kanske ikke det kjæreste i verden...

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. —Socrates (469–399 BCE)

Theirs was a story of two people bound strongly to one another yet forbidden to be together. He was royalty, she was a commoner.

Varje generation människor i ett specifikt samhälle kan bygga vidare på det som generationerna före lärde sig; i motsats till det finns det bland våra fantastiska apkusiner inte mycket till kulturellt arv och när det gäller de flesta andra organismer inget alls.

Det behöver knappast sägas att Marx tanke med en grundläggande indelning i två klasser utelämnade ett stort antal människor. ... Marx föddes i en tysk-judisk medelklassfamilj i Preussen. ... Var passade Marx själv in?

The world is chaos, punctuated by brief outbreaks of civilization.

these people believe that they are the doctors of society, whereas in fact they are only the disease.

Finally, were you all like me, I would consider you so common that I would not care to associate with you. To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.

There seemed to be no horses nor animals of any kind; the men carried things around in little green carts, which they pushed before them. Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous.

I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.

But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves. I don't, declared the shaggy man. That is true, said the King, looking at him carefully; but perhaps you are not civilized.

it seems to me the Land of Oz is a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture innocent people.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.