Quotes About Society

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

The fabric of archetypal canon which used to support the average man has given way... [p. 439]

The marvel of television is one means that is being used to try and turn society into a uniform mush. The manipulation and thought control inexorably continues. Mankind is being rinsed out into a group of dull moralists who convince themselves that they are "good people.

Will Huxley's Brave New World come true one day in all its improbability and chilling inhumanity?

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.

Many watch paintings with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of the money. ( "When is art? " )

The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.

Our society has long diminished the importance of feelings, worshiping logic while downgrading the wisdom that comes from feelings, touting the left brain while ignoring the right. And this has created a terrible imbalance — the power of logic without the power of wisdom. Wisdom is the accumulation of all our experiences stored as emotion. When you cannot feel what is true, then you cannot utilize your wisdom.

Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.

Si quiere rechazar la maternidad, ¡qué mejor! Los hijos nos encadenan.

La trama conspirativa es una respuesta a la "vida puerca".

El futuro era también la ciudad moderna, las máquinas y la prolongación de la vida. En la lengua cotidiana y en la del periodismo, la palabra "futuro", que hoy se ha debilitado extrañamente, prometía un cambio que incluiría a todos.

En este mito, el pasado es un espacio donde se reinventa la llanura heroica de las guerras del siglo XIX, la violencia que es la madre del coraje suicida o resignado del gaucho, los códigos de honor de una sociedad rural premoderna. Sin esa dimensión cultural, Buenos Aires moderna sería una ciudad sin raíces, producida por la abundancia económica, la inmigración, las instituciones de las elites letradas. Para Borges, en cambio, es una ciudad

Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all. (Pause.) It is true the population has increased.

Trying to be normal is the greatest abnormality in the world.

Most men who are not married by the age of thirty-five are either homosexual or really smart.

When we say we lack time to cook -- or even time to eat -- we are not making a simple statement of fact. We are talking about cultural values and the way that our society dictates that our days should be carved up.

But something important about eating is lost when meals are never – or almost never – timed to be taken together. There's an old word, 'commensality', which literally means eating at the same table. The food anthropologist Claude Fischler has written that commensality is what provides the fundamental human 'script' of eating in every society. It was how basic bonds of kinship were forged

Most of our problems with eating come down to the fact that we have not yet adapted to the new realities of plenty, either biologically or psychologically.

As society, we haven't quite figured out what a new structure for meals would look like that isn't just a hasty sandwich in the car on the way to something more important.

Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.

Like so many of the things parents do out of loving solicitude, putting pressure on girls to lose weight has no good outcomes and a lot of bad ones.