Quotes About Society

we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar .

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

George Bernard Shaw

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

Mirovên geÅŸbîn û reÅŸbîn, her du jî ji bo civakê pêwîst in. GeÅŸbîn balafirê didahêne; reÅŸbîn sîwana rizgariyê.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?