Quotes About Society

Que unos libros puedan alterar hasta tal punto nuestra conciencia y dejar que el mundo siga de mal en peor, es algo que deja sin palabras.

Vuoi che ti dica una cosa? Più lo si analizza, corpo moderno, più lo si esibisce, meno esso esiste. Annullato, in misura inversamente proporzionale alla sua esposizione.

Se oggi l'uomo non mangia più l'uomo, è unicamente perché la cucina ha fatto dei progressi!

Parce que le mot à leurs yeux ne devient vraiment gros que lorsqu'on l'écrit, on s'en "branle" à l'oral, on s'en "bat les couilles à longueur de journée, on "nique ta mère" à tire larigot. Mais trouver le mot "couille" ou le verbe "branler" et "niquer" noir sur blanc, dans un livre, quand leur place est sur les murs des toilettes, alors ça...

In giro per la città si trasforma nell'instancabile doppio della grande epistola pubblicitaria... FORD, BANCA POPOLARE, COCA-COLA, le parole gli cadono dal cielo, le loro sillabe colorate gli esplodono in bocca. Non una sola marca di detersivo resiste alla sua passione per la decifrazione. «'La-va-più-bian-co', cosa vuol dire 'lavapiùbianco?» Poiché è giunta l'ora delle domande cruciali.

Vergogna a coloro che fanno dei giovani più abbandonati un oggetto fantasmatico di terrore nazionale! Costoro sono la feccia di una società senza onore che ha perduto finanche il sentimento della paternità.

Le bonheur individuel se doit de produire des retombées collectives, faute de quoi, la société n'est qu'un rêve de prédateur.

He was explaining how capitalism is bad--and I could see he had a point, but at the same time, I got the feeling that socialism or communism, or whatever he's selling, is probably just as bad, and the problem is human beings can ruin anything, even if it's a good idea to begin with.

Suppose you are bold, however; with a call, instead of merely leaving your card, you inquired if the lady were "at home." She was free to peer out of her drawing-room window on the second floor, see you and then whisper an emphatic "no" to her servant. This was perfectly acceptable, and it was understood that many people were physically at home when they were not socially "at home," although it was crass if they got caught.

You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

In 1979, only 40 percent of American men with at least a college degree had wives who also had at least graduated from college. By 2016 the comparable percentage was 70 percent.

The barbarians are at the gates." "The barbarians broke down the gates a long time ago... They're living among us now and devouring our children.

The French like anyone with money and power. - Mikhail Abramov

Russia will never be a democracy again, Allon. We cannot live as normal people.

All the blackmailers and extortionists I've ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood

My business is hurting, too. Everyone on the street is in trouble. I never thought I would say this, but the world was a much better place when the Americans were still rich.

Patience was not an American virtue.

The Society practiced democracy internally, even though most of its members believed it was a rather cumbersome concept in the real world. The Society's founding creed declared peace was dangerous. Its members believed constant controlled global tension served the interests of all. It prevented complacency. It maintained vigilance. It built national identity. And most of all it made them money, a good deal of money.

who famously dismissed the clientele of the Hôtel Grand Courchevel as "the elderly and their parents.

These battles of the political theory books and manifestoes did not occur in a vacuum, nor were they without tangible consequences. Their dominating background was the growing heterogeneity of American society in the last quarter of the century: its more diverse and more vocal subcultures, on the one hand, and its steadily growing economic inequalities on the other.

Like many parents, they equated normality with being happy and productive.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.