Quotes About Society

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men

La teología de un pueblo refleja el estado de las nalgas de sus niños.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy man left.

What you need is a gramme of soma." "All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms.

Lenina was left to face the horrors of Malpais unaided. They came crowding in on her thick and fast. The spectacle of two young women giving the breast to their babies made her blush and turn away her face.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

Bu da, diye veciz bir ifadeyle ekledi Müdür, mutluluk ve erdemin s?rr?d?r- yapmak zorunda olduÄŸun ÅŸeyi sevmek. Tüm ÅŸartland?rmalar?n amac? budur: insanlara, kaç?n?lmaz toplumsal yazg?lar?n? sevdirmek.

Los intelectuales de Occidente son todos aficionados a la silla. Por eso la mayoría de ustedes son tan repulsivamente malsanos.

So long as it remains out of touch with the rest of the world, an ideal society can be a viable society.

At ordinary times, then, we are perfectly certain that men are not equal. But when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that men are equal. Or at any rate—which comes to the same thing in practice—we behave as though we were certain of men's equality.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

No sé qué quieres decir. Yo soy libre. Libre de divertirme cuanto quiera. Hoy día todo el mundo es feliz. Bernard rió. -SI, hoy día todo el mundo el feliz. Eso es lo que ya les decimos a los niños a los cinco años. Pero ¿no te gustaría tener la libertad de ser feliz... de otra manera? A tu modo, por ejemplo; no a la manera de todos

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

He let out the amazing truth. For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.

Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what justification can there be for maintaining that the individual is less important than the group of which he is a member?

Fortunate boys!' said the Controller. 'No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy - to preserve you, so as far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.' 'Ford's in his flivver,' murmured the DHC. 'All's well with the world.