Social Disorder Quotes

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

After the vision of the anointed was given increasing scope in the education and public policy of the United States and other Western societies during the decades beginning with the 1960s, the social degeneration became palpable, documented beyond issue, and immense across a wide spectrum of social phenomena—declining educational standards, rising crime rates, broken homes, soaring rates of teenage pregnancy, growing drug usage, and unprecedented levels of suicide among adolescents. This social devastation was not due to poverty, for the material standard of living was rising substantially during this time. It was not due to repression, for an unprecedented variety of new “rights” emerged from the courts and legislatures to liberate people from the constraints of the law while they were being liberated from social constraints by the spread of “nonjudgmental” attitudes. Neither was this social degeneration due to the disruptions of war or natural catastrophes, for it was an unusually long period of peace, and science conquered many diseases that had plagued the human race for centuries, as well as providing better ways of protecting people from earthquakes and other destructive acts of nature. It was instead an era of self-inflicted wounds.

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

To make a State appear necessary, any would-be State must first destroy the natural order and create a Hobbesian "anarchy" characterized by looting and vandalizing.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The country has a welfare state that harms its beneficiaries, an education system that makes kids dumber, elite universities that generate morons and cities that won’t keep order.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

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.

The anarchist is the enemy of humanity—the enemy of all mankind.

It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Anyone who's had a casual conversation with his neighbors or is cognizant of reality TV should already be petrified of democracy.

If ever anarchy is triumphant, it’s triumph will last for but one red moment, to be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night of despotism.

Civilization has always been a bust.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

For preventing disorders, arising in several places within this jurisdiction by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other communities, to the great dishonor of God and offense of others: it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way, upon any such account as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shilling as a fine to the county.

The main tenet of Socialism, namely the community of goods, must be rejected without qualification, for it would injure those it pretends to benefit, it would be contrary to the rights of man, and it would introduce confusion and disorder into the commonwealth.