Quotes About Society

Chocolate's status as food for girls and women - something to be yearned for and then regretted - is so ingrained that it would be easy to assume that there is something deep within females that makes them crave chocolate.

You did not choose the environment in which you learned to eat, nor did you design the shops in which you buy your food. If you eat too much sugar and refined oil, that says less about you than it does about the world you are eating in.

It's a chancy business, taking our cues about how much to consume from our surroundings.

In most places, for most of history, children's food has not existed as a separate category after the age of weaning.

It is a lonely occupation, being someone who wrestles to control their responses to food, given that modern life is steeped with things to eat, both real and imaginary.

Cereal is a medium through which we learn to confuse hunger with marketing.

There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.

The development of a country has to start at the foundation of the society, the "family".

People who pay attention to what matters most in their lives, and who learn to ignore everything else, assume a freedom that is highly creative as well as potentially dangerous in contemporary society. Having abandoned everything of insignificance, they have nothing to lose. Apart from being faithful to their God, they no longer care what happens to them.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Let me make sure I have this straight. A guy can not be looking for love because it'll complicate his easy life. But a woman has to have all sorts of trauma to make her like that?