Quotes About Society

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Psychological and physical frictions abound in the rifts between human beings and the enigmatic, civilised jungle they inhabit. I am deeply interested in trying to understand the relationships between people, society, and nature; and my work is forged from accumulations of these frictions.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Everyone has to go mad, it's essential fir everyone to go mad - as soon as possible! It's essential - I know.

Yesterday, there was a Tzar and there were slaves. Today, there is no Tzar, but the slaves are still here. Tomorrow there will be only Tzars. We walk forward in the name of the free man of tomorrow, the Tzar of tomorrow. We have gone through the epoch when the masses were oppressed. We are now going through the epoch when the individual is oppressed in the name of the masses.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

when man's freedom equals zero, he commits no crimes. That is clear. The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. And now, just as we have gotten rid of it (on the cosmic scale, centuries are, of course, no more than "just"), some wretched halfwits...

And how about the "Daily Odes to the Benefactor"? Who can read them without bowing his head reverently before the selfless labor of this Number of Numbers? Or the terrible blood-red beauty of the "Flowers of Judicial Verdicts"? Or the immortal tragedy, "Lat for Work"? Or the bedside book of "Stanzas on Sexual Hygiene"?

To kill one individual, that is, to subtract fifty years to the total sum of human lives, was criminal. But to subtract fifty million years was not considered criminal. Really, isn't that absurd?

Hükümet (veya insanl?k) idam cezas?na izin vermiyor ama milyonlarca kiÅŸinin her gün yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ öldürülmesine göz yumuyor. Bir insan? öldürmek -yani yaÅŸam?ndan 50 y?l almak- suç ama tüm insanlar?n yaÅŸamlar?ndan 50.000.000 y?l? çekip almak suç deÄŸil!

Bir terazi al?n ve bir taraf?na bir gram, diÄŸerine bir ton koyun. Bir yanda "Ben", diÄŸer yanda "Biz," yani TekDevlet. Apaç?k, deÄŸil mi? "Ben"in devlet kar??s?nda hakka sahipliÄŸini öne sürmek, bir gram, bir tona eÅŸittir demekle tamamen ayn?d?r. Graml???n? unut ve bir tonun milyonda biri olduÄŸunu hisset.

Ak, kad tai iš ties? b?t? tiktai romanas, o ne dabartinis, iks?, ?-1 ir nuopuoli? pilnas mano gyvenimas.

Ä°nsan? suçtan ar?nd?rman?n tek yolu onu özgürlükten ar?nd?rmakt?r.

The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.

If only I had a mother, the way the ancients had. I mean my own mother. And if for her I could be —not the Builder of the Integral, and not number D-503, and not a molecule of the One State, but just a piece of humanity, a piece of her own self, trampled, crushed, outcast . . .

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.