To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
Society Quotes
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area – crime, education, housing, race relations – the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history […]
A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
If convents should be allowed at all, they should only be retreats for persons unable to serve the publick, or who have served it. It is our first duty to serve society; and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. A youthful passion for abstracted devotion […]
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. Today, the religious right and the academic left seem to be in some kind of competition to brutalize the gene pool. As agents of homogenization, both sides are committed to institutionalized mediocrity. They want to re-create the world in their image, and re-create society to fit the […]
The truth is that mass communications are only a mirror of our values. They show us who we are and what we have become. If we dislike what we see there we should cure the body politic, not merely attempt to retouch its image.
Teenagers have no monopoly (on adolescent behavior), except insofar as we are in fact a teenager society – a society that likes to play “chicken,” not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles.
