Quotes About Society

Boobs are just inherently undignified.

Club members refuse to abide by certain unwritten rules, and they make people aware of the existence of those rules by breaking them in public situations.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.

Nor did he realize a more important point - that if she was too great for this society she was too great for all society, and had reached the stage where personal intercourse would alone satisfy her.

But how can people?" they exclaimed, when anything was attacked, and subscribed to Defence Societies.

Once Europe turned away from Christ, it had to turn to the City of Man. That meant that Libido Dominandi became its constitution.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

Western societies are, by and large, individualistic societies. The most important entity in an individualistic culture is the individual person.

In collectivist societies, conversion is not strictly an individual decision, so it is often not an individual experience.

The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.

That every Nuer considers himself as good as his neighbor is evident in their every movement. They strut about like lords of the earth, which, indeed, they consider themselves to be. There is no master and no servant in their society, but only equals who regard themselves as Gods noblest creation...even the suspicion of an order riles a man and he either does not carry it out or he carries it out in a casual and dilatory manner that is more insulting than a refusal.

in those days they weren't citizens as we know them, but old landowning families with vast estates of fields and meadows.

The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.

You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?' 'Share? Do you mean unite? If both are of age and avoid public indecency, certainly.' 'Will the law ever be that in England?' 'I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.