Quotes on Society

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

It is our first duty to serve society.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.

Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.