Society Quotes - Page 31

• Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

  Robert Breault

  Imagination, Doe, Shipping

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Half, Depressive

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• If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Class, Stealing

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• I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

  E. B. White

  Believe, Decline, Machinery

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• The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

  Rajneesh

  Technology, Missing, Silence

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• Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

  Havelock Ellis

  Opportunity, Heroism, Burning

  Havelock Ellis (1912). “The Task of Social Hygiene”

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• It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

  Moliere

  Trying, Reform, World

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• I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Thinking, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Lazy, Mind, World

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• [The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Growth, Business Success

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• I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dirty, Struggle, School

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• I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Names, Titles, Aristocracy

  Oliver Goldsmith (1819). “Citizen of the World”, p.238

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• Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Brain, Mind

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• Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Feelings, Mind

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

  Norman Douglas

  Issues, Political, Age

  Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

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• The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

  Russell Baker

  Environmental, Age, May

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• I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Reading, Men, White Man

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• In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned to society. In my case, the ability to allocate capital would have had little utility unless I lived in a rich, populous country in which enormous quantities of marketable securities were traded and were sometimes ridiculously mispriced. And fortunately for me, that describes the U.S. in the second half of the last century.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Enormous Quantities, Half

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• Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

  Lewis Thomas

  Unique, Individual, Capacity

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

  Frank Chodorov

  Art, Law, Distribution Of Wealth

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Light, Achievement, Terrorism

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Division Of Labor, Peaceful, Steps

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1075, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Scarcity, Natural, Members

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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