Quotes About Society

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph; only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.

Es ist ein einförmig Ding um das Menschengeschlecht. Die meisten verarbeiten ihre Zeit, um zu leben, und das bißchen, das ihnen von Freiheit übrig bleibt, ängstigt sie so, dass sie alle Mittel aufsuchen, um es los zu sein

Die meisten verarbeiten den größten Teil der Zeit, um zu leben, und das bißchen, das ihnen von Freiheit übrig bleibt, ängstigt sie so, daß sie alle Mittel aufsuchen, um es loszuwerden...

Girls are always so keen to review [3525] Whether one's virtuous, and sticks to the rules. They think if a man can be led, he'll follow too.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

The human race is a monotonous thing. Most people work most of the time in order to live, and the little freedom they have left over frightens them so, that they will do anything to get rid of it. Oh, the regimentation of mankind!

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.