society Quotes

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.