SOCIETY QUOTES VI

quotations about society

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

speech on the occasion of the 24th Anniversary of Emancipation in Washington, D.C., "Southern Barbarism", April 16, 1888

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In society men protect themselves by protecting one another.

EMPEROR FOHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Parts of a machine
Modern day slavery
Dehumanizing control
Wasted lives fading
Sick Society System
Sick Society System
System of survival

CRIMINAL

"S.S.S."


No social stability without individual stability.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

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Without some portion of moral virtues, not even thieves can maintain society.

J. HARRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Points of Rebellion


Society is addicted to growth, and that's having terrible consequences for the planet and, increasingly, for us as well. We have to change our collective and individual behavior and give up something we depend on--power over our environment. We must restrain ourselves, like an alcoholic foreswearing booze. That requires honesty and soul-searching.

RICHARD HEINBERG

"Systemic Change Driven by Moral Awakening Is Our Only Hope", EcoWatch, August 14, 2017


Were it not for some small remainders of piety and virtue which are yet left scattered among mankind, human society would in a short space disband and run into confusion, and the earth would grow wild and become a forest.

JOHN TILLOTSON

"The Advantages of Religion to Societies", The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson

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No entrance without any exit, no possible society without a spacious graveyard.

ERNST BLOCH

The Principle of Hope


That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

ERICH FROMM

The Sane Society

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Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

EDWIN H. LAND

testimony, The Public Television Act of 1967: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications

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I'm just the subject of discussion now
The one no-one admires
I'm society's victim
I'm not just sufferin' from paranoia
It's invented by you and them

DISCHARGE

"Society's Victim"


Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


A participation in rights and advantages forms the bond of political society; an institution prior, in the intention of nature, to the families and individuals from whom it is constituted.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

KARL MARX

The Communist Manifesto

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Man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection.

FRANCIS BACON

Advancement of Learning

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Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure -- but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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The earth is much over-populated, hence that abominable institution called "Society."

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

TIMOTHY LEARY

The Politics of Ecstasy

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