Quotes About Society

Prohibition had turned drinking from an agreeable, not very important accompaniment to gossip into a craze.

So far as I can see, he brooded, travel consists in perpetually finding new things that you have to do if you're going to be respectable.

We lose more women to marriage than war, famine, and disease.

Albert Einstein when he said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

nd that, in a thimble, is patriarchy. Mary Daly puts it more elegantly and succinctly: "As long as god is male," she says, "the male is God." Which is why changing our view of God has everything to do with changing the world.

When [women] understand that the penalties are the same whether we disobey a little or disobey completely, but that the rewards come only when we disobey completely, then we are ready to be free.

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

You have no idea how many people there are in the world until you start getting freaked out by them.

Oh God, maybe there's something wrong with me. I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

I guess that's what happens when you have no Botox, makeup, or fake tan. You have expressions instead.

anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

A State for one man is no State at all.

tis greater far To rule a people than a wilderness.

Se tu hás de governar, soberano nesta terra, Melhor é com homens nela do que deserta regê-la. Uma urbe vazia é nada, tal como nada é navio Ermo de gente, sem tripulação nenhuma.

Greece and Poverty," said the historian Herodotus, "have always been bedfellows";

The Greeks, who gave us history, philosophy and political science, never managed to solve the problems posed by their political disunity;

My city too, not yours alone!

There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.