4,426 Quotes About Society

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

Build great value around your name with integrity, do away with fraud, greed, deception, cheating and stealing, and work on your character not leaving your reputation behind, you may never know when and where your name may be mentioned.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

Verso il denaro nutro una specie di rancore misto a disagio, verso la miseria un odio misto a ribrezzo, per i falsi apostoli dell’uguaglianza un disprezzo illimitato.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Hidden Highlands was maybe a little richer but not that different from many of the other small, wealthy and scared enclaves nestled in the hills and valleys around Los Angeles. Walls and gates, guardhouses and private security forces were the secret ingredients of the so-called melting pot of southern California.

Yet for some reason, we as a society havecollectively decided it’s better to have millions of human beings spending years oftheir lives pretending to type into spreadsheets or preparing mind maps for PR meetings than freeing them to knit sweaters, play with their dogs, start a garage band, experiment with new recipes, or sit in cafés arguing about politics, and gossiping about their friends’ complex polyamorous love affairs.

Harmony between society and nature can be obtained.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, and other bureaus reserve that a budget for a human life is worth anywhere from 4-10 million dollars. Like a sports car. Like a construction site. Or an airplane. As if the mysterious gift of consciousness could fit in the box of a W-2 form. To them, we are 4 inches of digital ink on a computer screen. Money: if we can’t get rid of it, we can at least admit it doesn’t deserve us.