Quotes About Society

If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It's a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.

Culture takes with one hand, but in some fortunate places it gives more with the other. To think about culture only as oppressive is ignorant and ungrateful, as well as dangerous.

deceitful, inauthentic individual existence is the precursor to social totalitarianism.

I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them. Such people have a perfect right to their opinions and actions, if they remain lawful. But they have no reasonable claim to public funding.

through the elevation and development of the individual, and through the willingness of everyone to shoulder the burden of Being and to take the heroic path. We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated.

But a woman should not look after a man, because she must look after children, and a man should not be a child.

Me?utim, sama tragedija (shva?ena kao proizvoljna grubost društva i prirode, nasuprot ranjivosti pojedinca) nije jedini - možda ?ak ni prvenstveni - izvor patnje. Treba uzeti u obzir i problem zla. Svijet je ?vrsto protiv nas, to je sigurno, ali ?ovjekova nehumanost prema ?ovjeku nešto je još gore.

I believe that government can, sometimes, be a force for good, as well as the necessary arbiter of a small set of necessary rules. Nonetheless, I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them.

Nuestros duramente conseguidos métodos adaptativos luchan por dominar, a menudo de forma violenta, en un individuo dado, entre individuos dentro de sociedades, y entre sociedades. Por tanto, se suscita el problema de la organización.

La transformación de circunstancias -ambientales- como consecuencia de causas puramente naturales constituye la causa más inmediatamente evidente del deterioro de la estabilidad cultural. Una sequía prolongada, inundaciones, terremotos, plagas, -los sucesos más horribles y arbitrarios de la naturaleza- son capaces de convertir en impotentes, de un plumazo, a las sociedades mejor adaptadas.

It's also not for the best that all human corruption is uncritically laid at society's feet. That conclusion merely displaces the problem, back in time.

La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final.

La seguridad de la sociedad predecible proporciona un antídoto al miedo, pero una sociedad demasiado rígida garantiza que tarde o temprano se producirá su propia destrucción.

Marx did the same thing when he described man in a fundamentally economic, class-based manner, and history as the eternal battleground of bourgeoisie and proletariat. Everything can be explained by running it through a Marxist algorithm.

Las reglas claras y la disciplina apropiada ayudan al niño, a la familia y a la sociedad a establecer, mantener y expandir el orden, que es todo lo que nos protege del caos y de los terrores del inframundo, allí donde todo es incierto, donde todo provoca ansiedad, desesperanza y depresión. No hay mejor regalo que unos padres responsables y valientes. No permitas que tus hijos hagan cosas que detestes.

We were struggling for position before we had skin, or hands, or lungs, or bones. There is little more natural than culture. Dominance hierarchies are older than trees.

the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle (and we should keep this fact firmly before our eyes) that the hierarchical slave-based societies of our ancestors reorganized themselves, under the sway of an ethical/religious revelation, such that the ownership and absolute domination of another person came to be viewed as wrong.

Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.)

Todos tenemos que asumir la máxima responsabilidad posible a nivel individual, de la sociedad y del mundo. Todos tenemos que decir la verdad, arreglar lo que está deteriorado y destruir y recrear lo que se ha quedado desfasado. Es así como podemos y debemos reducir el sufrimiento que envenena el mundo. Eso es pedir mucho. Es pedirlo todo.

Every society is already characterized by patterned behavior; otherwise it would be pure conflict and no "society" at all.

We compete for attention, personally, socially, and economically. No currency has a value that exceeds it. Children, adults, and societies wither on the vine in its absence. To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world.

The individual is molded by the social world. But social institutions are molded, too, by the requirements of the individuals who compose them.

Nonetheless, I do not understand why our society is providing public funding to institutions and educators whose stated, conscious and explicit aim is the demolition of the culture that supports them.