Quotes About Society

In 1981, when I passed out of Class 12, you could either become a doctor or an engineer. If you did not take up Science in Class 12, you were not considered a good student. The Arts were a no-no.

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

Being a virgin doesn't mean you can't have a good time.

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

Sangue e popolo! Siamo franchi! Non erano anche questi dei concetti vani? In ogni età gli uomini si cospargono l'amaro cibo della vita con la droga di idee diverse, che lo rendono ancora più disgustoso

Notes on the State of Virginia

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down.

the American people are disposed often to be generous rather than just.

Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?

The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. . . .Make a man a slave, and youmrob him of of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.

Give me the making of a nation's ballads and I care not who has the making of its Laws.

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe. It holds society together; it is the basis of all trust and confidence; it is the pillar of all moral rectitude. Without it, suspicion would take the place of trust; vice would be more than a match for virtue; men would prey upon each other, like the wild beasts of the desert; and earth would become a hell.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.