Quotes About Society

While it might be fashionable for a lady to attend a publuc lecture on the afterlife, or participate in a seance from time to time, claiming to have seen a ghost yourself does not go down well in polite circles.

Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages—and China too, of course.

One must keep a close eye on the current definitions. To be unpatriotic would be terrible. To be patriotic in the wrong way could be fatal.

People without hope are a dangerous crowd, even in a republic.

Strange, to lock men up for thieving when the whole army lived on robbery. To dangle men for murder when they were all at the business of killing. What makes a crime in a time when men take what they please from who they please?

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.

As far as I'm concerned you can fuck whomever you please, though my general observation has been that, as far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on.

Huh." Above us, not ten strides distant, are some of the most fashionable addresses in the city. The shimmering palaces and a river of shit, so much closer together than most would ever like to believe. Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

Aquí todo el mundo al nacer tiene una determinada condición social. Están los plebeyos, que se ocupan de ir a la guerra, trabajar la tierra y realizar todos los trabajos manuales. Están los burgueses, que se ocupan de comerciar y de las tareas intelectuales. Está la nobleza, que son los dueños de la tierra y mandan sobre los demás. Y luego, claro, está la realiza... que no recuerdo para qué sirve

But being a bastard was crime and punishment both.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated." Gustave Le Bon

Debauchery is profitable under any government

But that was civilization, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.

What is the world coming to when an honest man cannot burn corpses without suspicion?' asked Nothing.

far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Acaso el diagnóstico médico de nuestros tiempos modernos no equivale en realidad a un maleficio vudú?

But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told!

heterosexuality is considered an emotional dysfunction. Relatively easy to cure.