Whatever people may say, the f...

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

~Cesare Pavese~

What is a Communist? One who h...

What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

~Ebenezer Elliot ~

Vigorous societies harbour a c...

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

~Alfred North Whitehead~

Two people can form a communit...

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

~Jean-Paul Sartre~

Twenty per cent of the people ...

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

~Anonymous~

Tolerably early in life I disc...

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

~Thomas Huxley~

To be social is to be forgivin...

To be social is to be forgiving.

~Robert Frost~

Tis the final conflict! Let ea...

Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place! The international working class shall be the human race!

~The Internationale~

There are only two families in...

There are only two families in the world, as a Grandmother of mine used to say, the haves and the have-nots.

~Miguel de Cervantes~

There are four varieties in so...

There are four varieties in society; the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

~Hippolyte Taine~

The world has narrowed to a ne...

The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

~Lyndon B. Johnson~

The difference between our dec...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

~James Thurber~

The complacent, the self-indul...

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

~John F. Kennedy~

The cocktail party - as the na...

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

~Laurence Durrell~

The cocktail party - a device ...

The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.

~Charles Merrill Smith~

The classes that wash most are...

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

~G. K. Chesterton~

The best things and best peopl...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

~Robert Frost~

Somerset House in London where...

Somerset House in London where at one time English vital statistics were kept - birth, marriage and death records - was known as the egg factory ""where they hatch 'em, match 'em, and dispatch 'em.""

~Anonymous~

Society, my dear, is like salt...

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

~Arthur Stringer~

Society, dead or alive, can ha...

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

~Arthur Balfour~