Quotes About Society

Louis XIV lui au moins, qu'on se souvienne, s'en foutait à tout rompre du bon peuple. Quant à Louis XV, du même. Il s'en barbouillait le pourtour anal.

Cuando tienes la cara bien dura, es bastante, entonces casi todo te está permitido, absolutamente todo, tienes a la mayoría de tu parte y la mayoría es quien decreta lo que es locura y lo que no lo es.

Wat het leven in feite zo dodelijk vermoeiend maakt is misschien de geweldige inspanning die we op moeten brengen om twintig, veertig jaar en nog wel langer redelijk te blijven, om niet gewoon volkomen jezelf te zijn, dat wil zeggen abject, wreed en absurd. 't Is een nachtmerrie als jij, strompelende stumperd die je in werkelijkheid bent, van 's ochtends vroeg tot 's avonds laat maar steeds de superman moet spelen, wat ergens toch wel het ideaal van deze wereld is.

Truth is inedible. Nowadays

Nu zijn we dan aan het eind van twintig eeuwen hoge beschaving beland en toch zou geen enkel politiek stelsel twee maanden waarheid overleven. Hieronder versta ik zowel de marxistische als onze burgerlijke en fascistische maatschappij.

allemaal hetzelfde, waar je ook komt! welk regime ook, welke filosofie, sekte, kleur!... elk excuus is goed!... ze stormen toe, in zwermen! en dan is't te laat!... dan vreten ze je op!

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

Sizi akl? ba??nda sanmalar?n?n en iyi yolu baya?? piÅŸkin olmakt?r. Ä°yiden iyiye piÅŸkinseniz mesele yok, o zaman hemen hemen ne yapsan?z yeridir, ne isterseniz, çoÄŸunluk sizden yanad?r ve kimin deli olup olmad???na karar veren de çoÄŸunluktur

Well. I'm not a poet, I'm just a woman. And as a woman I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. Even if I had my own money, which I don't, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. If we had children they would belong to him not me. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition, because it is. It may not be for you but it most certainly is for me.

Anthropology was the study of humanity. Susannah's interest lay in the way human beings related to each other and their environments at various periods of history.

Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.

I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things. Society is no help. It tells us again and again that we can most be ourselves by acting and looking like someone else...

But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say? Ah, there's the rub, sighed Anne. There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!

Won't you try to remember you're a lady? she pleaded. Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it

T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

In order to make an error, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.

Ma la causa vera di tutti i nostri mali, di questa tristezza nostra, sai qual è? La democrazia, mio caro, la democrazia, cioè il governo della maggioranza. Perché, quando il potere è in mano d'uno solo, quest'uno sa d'esser uno e di dover contentare molti; ma quando i molti governano, pensano soltanto a contentar se stessi, e si ha allora la tirannia più balorda e più odiosa: la tirannia mascherata da libertà.

Kendini öldürmek isteyen birisi neden kendisi için deÄŸil de baÅŸkalar? için ölü olduÄŸunu hayal eder?

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos

Não existem patriotas em filas de hospitais.

Dizem que a lei existe para contrariar a natureza. Se o Homem sempre seguisse seus instintos naturais e matasse, roubasse e passasse a mão na bunda do próximo sem qualquer punição, onde estaríamos? No Brasil, acertou.

By not participating in the machine, the individual becomes a fool and an outcast. Great pressures of conformity will mount up from all sides for anyone who begins to flounder about in the throes of awakening.

To become accepted by the bulk of humanity, spirituality must be "cleansed" of magic, thereby turning it into religion. The original ritualistic elements that are designed to liberate the individual from his cultural trance are labeled as "immoral" or "primitive.