The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society.
Society Quotes
My mind rejects the whole social order and Christianity – home, the recognized virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines… I cannot enter the social order except as a vagabond.
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products […]
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of “loyalty” and “duty.” Whenever these two concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away.
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow – by the tilt of the social landscapes.
