Society Quotes

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.