Society Quotes – Thoughtful Reflections on Human Interaction

"We live in an era where foolishness no longer hides, but is rewarded, applauded, and sold as success."

Unbekannt

"Monuments have never been built to critics, but they have often been built to the criticised."

Glenn Wesley Turner

"To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"The world is made up of those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask what happened."

Norman Ralph Augustine

"The government of man over man is slavery. Whoever lays a hand on me to rule over me is a usurper and a tyrant. I declare him to be my enemy."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."

Gloria Marie Steinem

"We now find our gods not on the altar, but in the bottle of alcohol, the football match on television, the new pair of shoes and the arms of the casual lover."

Bernardo Kastrup

"70% of the population — namely the lower 70% on the income and wealth scale — have absolutely no influence on political decisions. Yes, it is no wonder that the population sinks into apathy and lethargy and then seeks refuge in some political positions with an ugly face, hoping that through them they can regain some influence at all."

Prof. Rainer Mausfeld

"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."

Thomas Sowell

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

"Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive"

G. Edward Griffin

"When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend. Even the money that non-indebted depositors have placed with them was originally created out of nothing in response to someone else's loan. So what entitles the banks to collect rent on nothing? It is immaterial that men everywhere are forced by law to accept these nothing certificates in exchange for real goods and services. We are talking here not about what is legal, but what is moral."

G. Edward Griffin

"Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are."

G. Edward Griffin

"The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about."

Walter Lippmann

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

Sir James Paul McCartney

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it"

Leo Tolstoi

"In a situation when you feel threatened there is less room to criticize the government because then you are immediately labeled a traitor. Like this is war now. We’re in a national emergency. We all have to unite around the government and anybody who opposes that or criticizes the government is a traitor. [...] this is why very often even in a situation when there is no real threat leaders are manufacturing artificial threats."

Yuval Noah Harari

"Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview."

Bernardo Kastrup