Quotes About Society

But this nation has deliberately made itself stupid, for practically a thousand years: nowhere else are the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, so viciously abused.

Bad men have no songs'.* – How is it the Russians have songs?

AÅŸa gr?ieÅŸte bufonul: «RelaÅ£ia cu oamenii corupe caracterul ÅŸi mai cu seam? când acesta îÅ£i lipseÅŸte.»

There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly.

Many too many are born: for the superfluous ones was the state devised!

To confirm the great principle with which civilization begins: any custom is better than no custom.

What alone can our teaching be? – That no one gives a human being his qualities: not God, not society, not his parents or ancestors, not he himself (– the nonsensical idea here last rejected was propounded, as 'intelligible freedom', by Kant, and perhaps also by Plato before him). No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives.

Humanity does not strive for happiness; only the English do.

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

Due to its lack of tranquillity, our civilisation is heading toward a new barbarism.

To me, the masses seem to be worth a glance only in three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, presented on bad paper with worn out printing plates, then as the resistance against the great men, and finally as working implements of the great. For the rest, let the devil and statistics carry them off!

Semua perempuan yang baik menemukan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan adalah bertentangan dengan kesopanan mereka. Ia membuat mereka merasa seakanakan ada orang yang ingin melihat dibalik kulit mereka--atau yang lebih parah! Dibalik pakaian dan kosmetik mereka...

A people is nature's roundabout way of getting six or seven great men. – Yes: and then of getting around them.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting its wrong-doers go scot-free. -

All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline: that which is great in the cultural sense has been unpolitical, even anti-political.…

All the means by which one has so far attempted to make mankind moral were through and through immoral.

The fool interrupts — The writer of this book is no misanthrope; today one pays too dearly for hatred of man.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

Human society: it is an experiment, this I teach — a long search: but it searches for the commander! — an experiment, oh my brothers! And not a "contract"!

Todos querem o mesmo, todos são iguais: o que pensa de outro modo tende a ir para o manicómio.

O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame—that is the history of man!

For, why is the triumph of Nihilism inevitable now? Because the very values current amongst us to-day will arrive at their logical conclusion in Nihilism,—because Nihilism is the only possible outcome of our greatest values and ideals,—because we must first experience Nihilism before we can realise what the actual worth of these "values" was....

Human society: it is an attempt—so I teach—a long seeking: it seeketh however the ruler!— —An attempt, my brethren! And NO contract! Destroy, I pray you, destroy that word of the soft-hearted and half-and-half!