Quotes About Society

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.' He scratched his chin. 'That's why I'm keeping a low profile--so the bastards don't get me.

Society always tries to enslave, imprison, and execute its greatest men, those who dare to stand apart and rise above.

he asks me, as if Ruth's become invisible. That's fucked up but that's what happens to women. We grow up into ghosts. No one wants to screw Ruth anymore so she's invisible.

as if being born a girl makes her responsible for everyone alive.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary Consent, and they have a Right to demand and insist upon the performance of such Conditions and previous Limitations as form an equitable original Compact.

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Club—An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.