Quotes About Society

La nobleza es cara, improductiva y parasitaria, y absorbe demasiada energía de la sociedad para satisfacer sus frívolos antojos.

Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.

Trotsky once wrote: How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones? Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.

Many lives and limbs have been lost, McCandless, by excluding women from the more intricate medical arts.

Our system of class prejudice is the cleverest piece of self-frustrating daftness since the Tower of Babel, it benefits nobody but a few at the top. We fool ourselves into fooling others into fooling ourselves even more.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

A rua exprimia a perturbadora angústia de uma colectividade; não era um indivíduo orgulhoso a gabar-se da sua história. Era humana e grande na sua aflição por gritar a dor de toda uma multidão. E Sayed Karam assistia impotente a este grito dos homens através da matéria.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.