Society Quotes - Page 34

• Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

  Andrew Young

  Secrecy, Diplomacy, Copiers

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• In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

  Jack Horner

  Lifetime, Persons, Where We Came

  1993 On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26 Apr.

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• The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

  Tacitus

  Family, Hatred, Violent

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 70,

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Politics, Politician, Unfair

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Class, Hatred, May

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, People, Profound

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

  W. H. Auden

  Mother, Father, Taken

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• Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

  Paul Valery

  Rights, Moments, Social

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• The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Yesterday, Honest

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• A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Feelings, Public Opinion, Ill

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

  Albert Einstein

  Crime, Individual, Terrible

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.99, Broadway Books

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• The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Interesting, Humanity

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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• In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Owing, Opinion, Mankind

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

  John Dryden

  Politics, Ruins, Politician

  Absalom and Achitophel pt. 1, l. 173 (1681)

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• Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  Herman Melville

  Work, Grief, Men

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Work, Willing

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.316, Oxford University Press

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• The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

  Karl Marx

  Long, Church, Politics

  "By Appointment With the Future Queen" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. April 28, 2011.

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• Work is the province of cattle.

  Dorothy Parker

  Work, Cattle, Provinces

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Men, Vanity

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• Lords are lordliest in their wine.

  John Milton

  Wine, Aristocracy, Lord

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1418

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• What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  America, Fiction, World

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.29, Verso

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