Quotes About Society

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

Suçlad???m kiÅŸilere gelince: Hiçbirini tan?m?yorum. Onlar? hiç görmedim. Kendilerine kar?? ne h?nc?m var, ne kinim. Onlar benim için topluma kötülük eden kiÅŸilerden, kafalardan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir. Benim burada yapt???m ÅŸey gerçeÄŸin ve adaletin ortaya ç?kmas?n? h?zland?rmak için devrimci bir araca baÅŸvurmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Evet! Bu utanç verici gösteriyi izliyoruz, borçlar ve suçlar alt?nda ezilmiÅŸ kiÅŸiler suçsuz ilan ediliyor; buna kar??l?k onurun ta kendisi, yaÅŸam? lekesiz bir adam cezaland?r?l?yor. Bir toplum bu noktaya geldiÄŸi zaman, art?k çürümeye baÅŸlam?? demektir.

Vois, ce sont les autres, c'est tout le monde qui va se mettre entre nous.

What scum respectable people are!

Foucarmont had twice fought duels, and he was in consequence most politely treated and admitted into every circle.

a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)

Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!

You know, I'm disgusted when dirty little boys run after old women.

The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his moneybags.

Fransa'n?n en büyük romanc?lar?ndan birinin kopard??? Üstelik bu insanlar uyuyabiliyorlar, eÅŸleri ve çocuklar? var, onlar? seviyorlar! ç??l???n? her okuyuÅŸlar?nda yürekleri s?zlayacak, kendi kendilerinden, kendi türlerinden utanacak, gerçek adalet özlemini bir kez daha duyacaklar.

Alors, Nana, tout de suite, entama La Faloise. Il postulait depuis longtemps l'honneur d'être ruiné par elle, afin d'être parfaitement chic.

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.

to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)

Señor, ¿por qué no han de tener las mujeres derecho para encontrar guapos a los hombres que lo sean, y por qué ha de mirarse mal que lo manifiesten? (...) Si no lo decimos, lo pensamos, y no hay nada mas peligroso que lo reprimido y oculto, lo que se queda dentro.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.

The dictatorship is like an aria that never becomes an opera.

Pero como aquí —observó Nucha, formulando sencillamente una observación histórico-filosófica de bastante alcance— no ve uno sino las atrocidades de los señores de otro tiempo... parece que son las únicas que le dan en qué pensar... ¿Por qué serán tan malos cristianos los hombres? —añadió entreabriendo los labios con cándido asombro.

Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.

I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

You inquire after my health - it is better; but while I remain cut off from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be cheerful and well?

In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.  A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.