Quotes About Society

What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century).

We live in a culture of violence.

I believe bending to the will or beliefs of one person and not being an individual will eventually lead to the perpetual destruction of society today as we know it!

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence

T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path will reliably find itself failing to attract members, while a mass movement that reshapes its message to attract a large audience will inevitably turn into a mechanism for replicating the existing order of things.

Like all supposedly classless societies, America makes up for its lack of formal caste barriers by raising class prejudice to a fine art; the cheap shots at small town America so common among the urban middle classes who dominate today's green scene are an expression of that, and so is the peer pressure that keeps most Americans from doing the sensible thing and buying cheap and sturdy used products in place of increasingly overpriced and slipshod new ones.

the more egalitarian a group claims to be, the more it depends on baboon politics to maintain group cohesion and direction

In a certain sense, of course, that's exactly what was going on. I say "in a certain sense" because it's very difficult to talk about magic in modern industrial society and be understood clearly. That's not because magic is innately difficult to understand. It's because our culture has spent the last two thousand years or so doing its level best not to understand it.

George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul's vote if they give him money that they steal from Peter. This understates the problem with democracy because Paul is an old man and Peter is either a child or unborn.

Berlusconi is us," as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.

If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.

Tower'd cities please us then,And the busy hum of men.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

As a generation, as a society, we never talk about the shit that went down with the fear of nuclear war. Not really. We'll laugh about how scary The Day After was, but we never recognize that we were raised in despair and probably handed it down to our kids and to later versions of ourselves.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin.

Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age—unless you're an American, of course.

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. ...There aren't any good, brave causes left. (Jimmy Porter)

Jimmy: I hope you won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I am a gentleman.