Quotes About Society

Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.