Society Quotes

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

Tribes like this are the truly affluent societies — not because they are so wealthy but because they do not want more than they have.

To assert, in any case, that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this today.[Affirmer en tout cas qu’un homme doit être absolument retranché de la société parce qu’il est absolument mauvais revient à dire que celle-ci est absolument bonne, ce que personne de sensé ne croira aujourd’hui. ]

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don’t have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The Soul selects her own Society —
Then — shuts the Door —
To her divine Majority —
Present no more —

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Society is inside of man and man is inside society, and you cannot even create a truthfully drawn psychological entity on the stage until you understand his social relations and their power to make him what he is and to prevent him from being what he is not. The fish is in the water and the water is in the fish.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Society cannot speak with one voice so long as it is split into warring classes.[Die Gesellschaft hat kein gemeinsames Sprachrohr, solange sie in kämpfende Klassen gespalten ist.]