Society Quotes

Society and loved ones will feed you exactly what you want to hear rather than what you need to hear.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

If we all said to people’s faces what we say behind one another’s backs, society would be impossible.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.

Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.