Quotes About Society

Özetlersek: Ä°yi bilinen bir gerçektir ki, halk? yönetmeyi en çok isteyenler, ipso facto, bu iÅŸi yapmaya en az uygun olanlard?r. Özeti özetleyecek olursak: kendisinin BaÅŸkan yap?lmas?n? saÄŸlayabilecek kiÅŸilerin bu iÅŸi yapmas?na hiçbir surette izin verilmemesi gerekir. Özetin özetinin özeti: Halk bir problemdir.

Ho pensato che una civiltà che era impazzita al punto di aver bisogno di includere in un pacchetto di stuzzicadenti una serie di dettagliate istruzioni per l'uso non era più una civiltà in cui potessi vivere restando sano di mente.

In every society on earth the child is regarded as a member of his parents' groups.

There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings." —Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room.

It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the whole world is being turned into casino.

Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no lives' aren't really on the new frontier of human sentience and preceptions?

Abe said something interesting. He said that because everyone's so poor these days, the '90s will be a decade with no architectural legacy or style- everyone's too poor to put up new buildings. He said that code is the architecture of the '90s.

How cruel that mankind was forced to conform to the global electronic experience. But all other options had vanished. There no longer existed a country to escape to ("country"—also, what a quaint notion) where people read books and had lives that became stories.

It starts out young - you try not to be different just to survive - you try to be just like everyone else - anonymity becomes reflexive - and then one day you wake up and you've *become* all those other people - the others - the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what you really *are*. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

After playing Halo 2 for 3 hours, I went out and mowed down a Red Cross blood bank, raped anything with a pulse, and trashed the local mall. Then I toasted the gods of destruction with a goblet of blood stolen from a Girl Guide's body.

when future archeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of these gyms and all of this scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we are a culture obsessed with torture.

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now—as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

Karla like myself is of the new apolitical pick-and-choose style of citizen. I think politics is soon going to resemble a J. Crew catalogue more than some 1776 ideal. If somebody wants to run for office, they had better be able to explain why they want to run for office. Wanting to be a candidate seems, in itself, reason for exclusion.

It's called 'designer prisoner-of-conscience labour.

Culture is religion externalized.

There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. "I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over.

A series of droughts between AD 760 and 800 seem to have been the trigger for famine that hit the common people disproportionately hard. It was the last straw for a society teetering on the edge of alienation and conflict.