Quotes About Society

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

O que sempre tem feito do Estado um inferno na terra tem sido precisamente procurar o homem fazer dele o seu paraíso.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Only sick music makes money today.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people—"base.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else's equal, 'At bottom we are all herd and mob.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Whatever they may think and say about their egoism, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.

Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.