Quotes About Society

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.

Our personal hallucination now developed as boundlessly as perhaps the total nightmare of human society, for instance, with earth, sky, and atmosphere.

It has always been possible to say The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling.

The taboo does not banish the transgression but, on the contrary, depends upon it, just as the transgression depends on the existence of the taboo: "The transgression does not deny the taboo but transcends it and completes it

Christianity dates from the individual birth of a redeeming god; Islam, from the birth of a community, of a new kind of state, which did not have its basis in either blood or place. Islam differs from Christianity and Buddhism in that it became, after the Hegira, something different from a teaching propagated in the framework of a society already formed (a local or blood community). It was the establishment of a society based on the new teaching.

One cannot all of a sudden deprive a society of its essence.

The ritual of witchcraft is the ritual of an oppressed people.

Ce sont, en fin de compte, les malades qui jugent le plus souvent, et de points de vue très divers, s'ils ne sont plus normaux ou s'ils le sont redevenus. Redevenir normal, pour un homme dont l'avenir est presque toujours imaginé à partir de l'expérience passée, c'est reprendre une activité interrompue, ou du moins une activité jugée équivalente d'après les goûts individuels ou les valeurs sociales du milieu.

In any case the mind of the Third Estate is of capital interest in showing the historian that events have their immediate roots not in their antecedents but in the men who intervene by interpreting those events.

Naquel mundo que era o seu, era case obrigatoria desexar sempre máis do que se podería adquirir. Non eran eles quen o decretaran; era unha lei da civilización, unha situación de feito, da cal a publicidade en xeral, os grandes almacéns, a arte dos escaparates, o espectáculo da rúa, e mesmo, en certa medida, o conxunto das produccións comunmente chamadas culturais, eran as expresións máis fidedignas.

Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

I see now that there is a great deal in what Aunt Almeria says. She considers that there are terrible pitfalls in Society. Sir Richard shook his head sadly. Alas, too true! And vice, said Pen awfully. Profligacy, and extravagance, you know. I know. She picked up her knife and fork again. It must be very exciting, she said enviously.

The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.' 'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.

Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.

Let me tell you, sir, that if you wish to be accepted into Bath society you will do well to mend your manners!' retorted Abby. 'I've none to mend, and not the smallest wish to be accepted into Bath, or any other, society.