Quotes about society

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Let them eat brioche.

Rousseau credits it to "a great princess". Marie Antoinette was a child in Austria at the time — she never said "let them eat cake".

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world… It is the opium of the people.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Hell is other people.

Sartre later explained he meant that we see ourselves through others' eyes — not that people are unbearable.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Good fences make good neighbors.

It is the neighbour's saying, and the poem's narrator doubts it.