Quotes About Society

The hour of crime does not sound at the same time for all peoples. Hence, the permanence of history.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Respectable people... What bastards!

Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujeres de bien, ¿eh, condenada? ¿Llevó medias alguna vez tu madre? ¿Peinóse como tú, que siempre estás dale que tienes con el cacho de espejo? Toma, para que te acuerdes...".

Yo no soy un chiflado -pensaba don Gabriel. -Yo soy víctima de mi época y del estado de mi nación, ni más ni menos.

Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don't think for a beat it makes it better When you sit her down and tell her Everything gonna be all right She knows in society she either is A devil or an angel with no in between She speaks in the third person So she can forget that she's me

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.

Io ora mi domando se aumentando la tensione elettrica, l'umanità intera, in un tempo più o meno lontano, non finirà per impazzire. Ecco un grande problema che dovrebbe preoccupare le menti dei nostri scienziati.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

What could be more absurd than to assemble a crowd to witness a man and woman promising to love each other for the rest of their lives, when we know what human creatures are, — men so thoroughly selfish and unprincipled, women so vain and frivolous?

I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you—Nobody—too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!How dreary—to be—Somebody!How public—like a Frog—To tell one's name—the livelong June—To an admiring Bog!

As Nic said, second-hand clothes were like day drinking, government handouts and having a lawyer: classy if you're rich, proof you're trash if you're poor.

It is a great gain to society to have two idols: in the competition of idolatries the true worship gets a chance.

The essence of a civilised age is, that administration requires the continued aid of legislation.

The idea that the head of the Government is the head of society is so fixed in the ideas of mankind that only a few philosophers regard it as historical and accidental, though when the matter is examined, that conclusion is certain and even obvious.

But a good Government is well worth a great deal of social dullness. The dignified torpor of English society is inevitable if we give precedence, not to the cleverest classes, but to the oldest classes, and we have seen how useful that is.

We have voluntary show enough already in London; we do not wish to have it encouraged and intensified, but quieted and mitigated.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

In general, too, the conquerors would be better than the conquered (most merits in early society are more or less military merits), but they would not be very much better, for the lowest steps in the ladder of civilization are very steep, and the effort to mount them is slow and tedious.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices tend to make us think that "Progress" is the normal fact in human society, the fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see. But history refutes this. The ancients had no conception of progress; they did not so much as reject the idea; they did not even entertain the idea.

Peace cannot exist in that society where their is no justice, equality and obedience of law.

Sometimes I feel how foolish were the people who made weapons, when behavior of people can kill a person from inside out.