Quotes About Society

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

Là ou ça sent la merde ça sent l'être. L'homme aurait très bien pu ne pas chier, ne pas ouvrir la poche anale, mais il a choisi de chier comme il aurait choisi de vivre au lieu de consentir à vivre mort. C'est que pour ne pas faire caca, il lui aurait fallu consentir à ne pas être, mais il n'a pas pu se résoudre à perdre l'être, c'est-à-dire à mourir vivant.

Antes de retornar à cultura, constato que o mundo tem fome e que não se preocupa com a cultura; e que é de um modo artificial que se pretende dirigir para a cultura pensamentos voltados apenas para a fome.

Les asiles d'aliénés sont des réceptacles de magies noire, conscients et prémédités.

Ciò che avviene, non avviene tanto perché alcuni vogliono che avvenga, quanto perché la massa degli uomini abdica alla sua volontà, lascia fare, lascia aggruppare i nodi che poi solo la spada potrà tagliare, lascia promulgare le leggi che poi solo la rivolta farà abrogare, lascia salire al potere gli uomini che poi solo un ammutinamento potrà rovesciare

I think you must like history, as I liked it when I was your age, because it deals with living people and everything that concerns people, as many people as possible, all people in the world, in so far as they unite together in society and work and struggle and make a bid for a better life. All that can't fail to please you more than anything else, isn't that right?

P]eople don't want freedom. They only want to consume. They look at the commercials, totally captivated, and get into debt so they can buy everything.

Six paradoxes of Mature Socialism: 1) There's no unemployment, but no one works; 2) no one works, but productivity goes up; 3) productivity goes up, but stores are empty; 4) stores are empty, but fridges are full; 5) fridges are full, but no one is satisfied; 6) no one is satisfied, but everyone votes yes.

Food was fuel for survival and socialist labor. Food was a weapon of class struggle.

The materialists." "The head of General Motors or the woman buying groceries at the supermarket?" "Both. They both contribute to the erosion of those parts of life that are healthy, benevolent, and in harmony with nature. They are the water that cuts away at the sandy bank of our existence, making our foothold on this planet increasingly precarious.

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

Our national love of porn and pole dancing is not the byproduct of a free and easy society with an earthy acceptance of sex. It is a desperate stab at freewheeling eroticism in a time and place characterized by intense anxiety. What are we afraid of? Everything…which includes sexual freedom and real female power.

We liked being wild, but not nearly as much as we liked being acceptable.)

You have to understand, a man is a man; it's doesn't matter what position he's in

The Van Dykes had determined that America was suffering from "testosterone poisoning," and vowed that they would speak to men only if they were waiters or mechanics

Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.

Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland…those are the games men play. We see it differently. We want to be neither oppressor nor oppressed.

Wenn auf der Erde Liebe herrschen würde, wären alle Gesetze entbehrlich.

Lysistrata: Calonice, it's more than I can bear, I am hot all over with blushes for our sex. Men say we're slippery rogues-- Calonice: And aren't they right?

Politics these days in no occupation for an honest man ... neither educated nor honest, he has to be an ignoramus & a rogue.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Man is by nature a political animal.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.