Quotes About Society

As part of an interdependent world, you have to relate to that world every day. But the acute problems of that world can easily obscure the chronic character causes.

The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility—all in the name of independence. The

A woman from the audience asks: 'Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?' and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: "There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the '50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.

You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison

imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.

Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible.

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves. Don Colacho

Dr. Martin Seligman in his excellent book, Flourish, calls the practice of instantly finding the benefit in adversity "post-traumatic growth," and he backs it up with rather thrilling and extensive research studies. Our society and media are fixated on post-traumatic stress because of the strong bias toward (and financial interest in) tragedy.

You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know.

capitalism encourages risk-taking and optimism, which in turn leads to innovation that transforms both production and society itself... However, innovation and growth generate a milieu of pervasive uncertainty: since the process of innovation itself transforms the future, there is no capacity for a rational anticipation of it.

You actually can be too rich or too thin

Susan Hawley, I suspect, is a woman much in demand in the rarefied zone of political nightlife in this city. She is the ultimate ornament to be hung from the arm of important political figures or captains of industry during quiet dinner meetings. In her commercial dealings, hundred-dollar bills appear in considerable quantity in her purse the morning after, like fishes and loaves in the basket after the Sermon on the Mount.

Guns were out and butter was in, enough to grease the welfare skids and

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.

la economía como ciencia consiste fundamentalmente en un conjunto de herramientas, más que una cuestión de contenido, ningún tema se halla fuera de su alcance.

podría sugerir que la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

The market was particularly strong in Chicago, which had more than a thousand known brothels.

People are complicated creatures, with a nuanced set of private and public incentives, and that our behavior is enormously influenced by circumstances.

la moral representa el modo en que a las personas les gustaría que funcionase el mundo, mientras que la economía representa cómo funciona éste en realidad.

Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.