“Forward is not the advancement of our feet, but the holding of our hands.”
“Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.”
“Power from unity, revival from power, revival from society, and the state emerges from society in the end”
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
“No social stability without individual stability.”
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
“I don t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.”
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
“Have you been out in society recently? Cause it s SHIT.”
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
“Yeah, I love being famous. It s almost like being white, y know?”