Social Relation Quotes

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.