Society Quotes - Page 32

• It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

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

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• In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

  Guy Debord

  Reality, People, Unity

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

  Washington Irving

  Eye, Velvet, Grass

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.383, e-artnow

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• When a man meets his make, society begins.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men

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• Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Novelists, Bears, Drag

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• Capital is to the progress of society what gas is to a car.

  James Adams

  Progress Of Society, Car, Gas

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• Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

  George Will

  Hyperbole, Atrophy

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• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Catholic, Church, Degrees

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• After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Change, Moon, Mars

  E.F.SCHUMACHER (1973). “SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL”

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• He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

  Charles Lamb

  Ornaments, Might, Ifs

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.340

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• Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

  Brian Aldiss

  Firsts, Fit

  "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.

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• MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Wife, Noblemen

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.730, Library of America

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• On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

  Jon Stewart

  Average, Three, News

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• Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

  Norman O. Brown

  Psychology, Progress, Neurosis

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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• It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Impossible, Sometimes, Snob

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.8

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• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Jobs, Politics

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

  H. L. Mencken

  Noses, Demand, Certainty

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

  Henry Adams

  Indulge In, Laughing, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1505, Open Road Media

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• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

  Khalil Gibran

  Effort, Gold, Teeth

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• A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religion, Church, Loyal

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• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Politics, Politician

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

  Horace

  Errors, Politics, Different

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• Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Education, Self, Two

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Errors, Politics

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Leadership, Mistake, Character

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