Quotes About Society

[Anacharsis] laughed at him [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich.

Quite simply, banks are as indebted and fragile as they are only because they want to be and not because of any benefit this brings to society. Nothing that banks do require that they borrow as much as they do or as much as they lobby to be allowed to do.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Source?

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.

In every household the Revolution had emptied the cooking-pot.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges...

On croit mourir pour la patrie ; on meurt pour des industriels

And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the Republic, as every good citizen is bound to do.

Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues, et de voler du pain.

Eu já não encontro tanto prazer, confesso, em ver essa gente elegante, depois que uma máquina pôs em movimento o fanatismo estúpido e a obtusa crueldade desses pequenos cérebros.

Os povos civilizados são como os cães de caça. Um instinto corrupto os incita a destruir sem proveito nem razão.

The French having passed from feudalism to monarchy, and from monarchy to a financial oligarchy, will easily pass from a financial oligarchy to anarchy.

Dans le salon de madame Clarence, on parlait de l'amour ; et l'on en disait des choses délicieuses.

Quando o serviço é obrigatório para todos, quando todos os cidadãos são soldados, ou foram, todas as forças sociais se acham dispostos de maneira a proteger o poder, ou até mesmo sua ausência, como se viu na França.

Mas, sendo o Exército uma administração como a Agricultura, as Finanças ou a Instrução Pública, não se concebe como possa existir uma justiça militar, quando não existe uma justiça agrícola, nem justiça financeira, nem justiça universitária. Toda justiça privada está em oposição aos princípios do direito moderno.

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente