Quotes About Society

Only an unimaginative man would think that mechanistic, command-and-control organizations could ever produce an equitable, enduring, free society. Only a thoughtless man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them. Only a cruel man would perpetuate them.

Manusia menuntut manusia lain untuk punya drama. Itu syaratnya supaya kita kelihatan normal

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

Society isn't prepared to imagine a soul wandering through time to heal its grief.

On the surface, everyday life has become much more comfortable than ever before. Yet people still lead lives of quiet desperation. The source of this desperation is repression, a sense that you cannot be what you want to be, cannot feel what you want to feel, cannot do what you want to do.

Commerce works better than theft.

But it didn't have the Great Enrichment because it didn't have the ideas flowing from a free people. Ideas, not savings, did it. Liberalism, not empire.

The thing that [Afrikans] must remember is that everything [White people] produce has a political purpose.

Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

All children are essentially criminal.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization

Yo, al igual que usted, parezco una naranja. A mi, al igual que a usted, todos los días alguna empresa pública o privada me exprime.

La transparencia avanza pero la opacidad también.

They fought to smile through the lines and the mud and the long hours, dancing under the stars and under the watchful eyes of their government, an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

Conformity," she wrote, "is the bane of middle class communities.