society Quotes

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people, but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on.

If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

American literature has always been immigrant.

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.