A Quotes
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“A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.”
“A socialist must be 'class-conscious', recognizing his identity as a member of the working class and understanding his interests as permanently against those of the master class.”
“A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed.”
Source: Saurus
“A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today”
Source: Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell
“A sociedade estava em declínio — e eu não queria ter nada com aquilo.
O pior era ver que, ainda assim, se podia encontrar quem depositasse esperança naquela merda, quem acreditasse que tempos melhores viriam — a esperança sempre foi o psicotrópico dos ingênuos. Essa gente que parecia não se dar conta de que quem mais gostava das coisas como estavam (e torcia para que tudo continuasse exatamente como estava) era aquele pessoal escroto nas partes de cima da pirâmide. (Sim, a porra da pirâmide social, essa mesma!) Afinal de contas, a maioria ali sabia muito bem tirar muito proveito dessa vasta fauna de ignorantes esfomeados que as escolas produziam. Gente que, mais tarde, em troca de tão pouco, vinham lustrar seus sapatos caros, dirigir seus carros, abrir-lhes as portas, limpar suas privadas chiques e fétidas, trocar as fraldas igualmente repugnantes de seus filhinhos perfumados e mimados que, desde cedo, aprendiam a cagar em cima dos que os serviam.
‘A democracia num país de ignorantes é o paraíso terrestre dos patifes oportunistas.’.”
“A sociedade merece muito mais, para isso a sociedade precisa mostrar que ela é capaz de fazer muito mais, e não esperar que façam por ela.”
“A sociedade modernizada até o estágio do espetacular integrado se caracteriza pela combinação de cinco aspectos principais: a incessante renovação tecnológica, a fusão econômico-estatal, o segredo generalizado, a mentira sem contestação e o presente perpétuo.”
Source: The Society of the Spectacle
“A sociedade não me interessa. Essa horda de programados tem exatamente o que merece.”
Source: O criminalista
“A sociedade é tida como culpada, porque a culpa muitas das vezes cae em cima dos oprimidos e não dos opressores.”
“A societies needs determines their ethics”
“A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.”
Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty
“A society based on money will make no sense.”
“A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.”
“A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.”
Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
“A society beset by terrifying social problems was threatened by realism... exacerbated by the deep-seated evils of poverty and overcrowding generated by Scotland's pell-mell industrialisation. To expose these would be revolutionary; it would also break the discipline of puritanism by mentioning the unmentionable... The Kirk enforced silence out of conviction, the middle class out of fear. The bogus community of the Kailyard was an alternative to the horror of the real thing.”
Source: Scotland and Nationalism: Scottish Society and Politics 1707 to the Present
“A society built on deception collapses when too many people simply stop participating in the lie.”
“A society built on lies is like a building resting on sand, it will inevitably fall.”
“A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable, the aged, the infirm, the disabled, and the unborn. I believe it with all my heart. And I couldn't be more proud to be standing with a pro-life candidate in Donald Trump.”
“A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.”
“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”
“A society can never be free without women’s liberation”
“A society cannot call itself civilised if healthcare is treated as a privilege. High-quality medication and timely treatment should reach every citizen equally, regardless of wealth or status. The strength of a nation rests on the dignity it extends to its weakest.”
“A society cannot survive when men and women are pitted against each other.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust out of the sheltered nest that society has provided. He can no longer hide his nakedness by the old disguises. he learns how much of what he has taken for granted was by its own nature neither eternal nor necessary but thoroughly temporal and contingent. He learns that the solitude of the self is an irreducible dimension of human life no matter how completely that self had seemed to be contained in its social milieu. In the end, he sees each man as solitary and unsheltered before his own death.
Admittedly, these are painful truths, but the most basic things are always learned with pain, since our inertia and complacent love of comfort prevent us from learning them until they are forced upon us. It appears that man is willing to learn about himself only after some disaster; after war, economic crisis, and political upheaval have taught him how flimsy is that human world in which he thought himself so securely grounded. What he learns has always been there, lying concealed beneath the surface of even the best-functioning societies; it is no less true for having come out of a period of chaos and disaster. But so long as man does not have to face up to such a truth, he will not do so.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
“A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.”
“A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.”
Source: L.P.
“A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and needy, because how we treat them reveals our hearts, regardless of the rhetoric we employ to make ourselves sound just.”
“A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.”
“a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.”
“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”
“A society has to make a choice: tolerate alternative lifestyles or build more prisons.”
Source: Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door 2016: The Travel Skills Handbook
“A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.”
“A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.”
“A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.”
Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812
“A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.”
Source: The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion
“A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.”
“A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.”
“a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.”
“A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”
Source: Fire in the belly: on being a man
“A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out.”
“A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.”
“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.”
“A society is doomed when opinions are respected more than truth.”
“A society is healthy only when it allows its members to discuss their thoughts openly. This is also the only way that a society can gather consensus, let everyone express his or her wish, and foster creativity.”
“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.”