Quotes About Society

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of London. His most recent award was a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015. He is the author of From Eternity to Here and

C. P. Snow—British intellectual, physicist, and novelist—is perhaps best known for his insistence that the "Two Cultures" of the sciences and the humanities had grown apart and should both be a part of our common civilization.

there's gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don't realize how fragile the social order is, I'm telling you.

Society was obsessed with invention, industrialization, incorporation, immigration, and, later, imperialism. It was indulgent of commercial speculation, social ostentation, and political prevarication but was indifferent to the special needs of immigrants and Indians and intolerant of African-Americans, labor unions, and political dissidents.

Economics is the science that studies how people and societies make decisions that allow them to get the most out of their limited resources.

They're so obsessed with living to impress that they've forgotten to be alive.

Justice Thomas McKean felt this was an accurate and appropriate application of Blackstone's declaration that publishing "bad sentiments destructive of the needs of society is the crime which society corrects.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected—the signs of a decaying culture.

asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. "Of course it would." The cultural correlation is undeniable: we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed

our freedom to express discontent with and even anger at our government's actions is vital to the preservation of a free and open society.

we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them [the people] not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living? Do we choose our life's work based on the U.S. Department of Labor's list of highest-paying jobs, or do we follow our bliss? Do we heed the call to conformity, or the call to adventure?

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

Failing to comprehend the original meaning of these documents guarantees that the original message will be lost in translation and maybe one day even deemed outmoded and irrelevant in modern society.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

One of the hardest lessons we all have to learn is how few choices life gives to a civilized woman with any conscience at all.

The application of time and skill to frivolous things is the hallmark of civilized society

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

Mit Betteln nähren viele sich, Die reicher sind als du und ich!

Lo último que nos dejó la breve etapa de Rathenau como sabor de boca fue la confirmación de lo que ya el periodo 1918/1919 nos había enseñado: nada de lo que hace la izquierda funciona.

De lo que se trata aquí es de la vacunación sistemática de todo un pueblo –el alemán– con un bacilo cuyo efecto consiste en que todos los portadores actúan contra el prójimo con ferocidad, o dicho de otro modo: se trata de liberar y cultivar aquellos instintos sádicos cuya represión y destrucción ha sido obra de un proceso civilizador de muchos miles de años de duración.