#2,840

Modern society works feverishly to put vulgarity within everyone’s reach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,836

Human warmth in a society diminishes by the same measure that its legislation is perfected.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,823

“Social utility” is a criterion that slightly degrades what it seeks to justify.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,821

Tolerating even stupid ideas can be a social virtue; but it is a virtue that sooner or later receives its punishment.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,810

A civilized society requires that in it, as in the old Christian society, equality and inequality be in permanent dialogue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,797

They speak emphatically of “transforming the world,” when the most to which they can aspire is to certain secondary remodelings of society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,706

We can only hope for a reform of society to come from the contradictions between human follies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,698

Asking the state to do what only society should do is the error of the left.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,690

The basic problems of an age have never been the theme of its great literary works.
Only ephemeral literature is an “expression of society.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,680

Economic claims, hostility between social classes, religious differences, tend to be mere pretexts for an instinctive appetite for conflict.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,679

The modern machine becomes more complex every day, and every day modern man becomes more elemental.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,657

Where even the last vestige of feudal ties disappears, the increasing social isolation of the individual and his increasing helplessness fuse him into a totalitarian mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,639

The atomization of society derives from the modern division of labor: where nobody knows specifically for whom he works, nor who specifically works for him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 426

#2,588

The difference between “organic” and “mechanical,” in social facts, is a moral one: the “organic” is the result of innumerable humble acts; the “mechanical” is the result of a decisive act of pride.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,576

The aesthetic impossibilities of an age stem not from social factors, but from internal censors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,549

An overpopulated country is one where every citizen is practically anonymous.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,534

In the society that is starting to take shape, not even the enthusiastic collaboration of the sodomite and the lesbian will save us from boredom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407

#2,501

Eroticism and Gnosticism are the individual’s recourse against the anonymity of mass society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 402

#2,476

We must remind those who infer from the social utility of myths the social utility of lies that myths are useful thanks to the truths they express.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#2,475

The descriptive use of social anecdotes has more characterological exactitude than statistical percentages.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398