society Quotes

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

I teach that all men are mad.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.