“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”
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“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”
“Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.”
“Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
“When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”
“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”
“Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.”
“The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
“If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.”
“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
“A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
“In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”
“Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.”
“Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.”
“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”