Quotes About Society

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.

it's not criminals who provoke great hatred, it's honest men

People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

I have a wish and a dream that medical and scientific societies will apologise to their ME patients.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The mass is all which sets no value on itself??good or ill??based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The mass crushes beneath it everything which is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Americans have discovered fear.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Because inside, people are dirty dogs. Everybody. The only difference is some people try to hide it and others don't bother.

Social conscience is a fashion, it changes every year.

Como no se los consideraba aptos para la democracia, pensaban que era mejor que estuvieran sujetos a un poder dictatorial.

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself.

in the evolution of a society, continued investment in complexity as a problem-solving strategy yields a declining marginal return.

Wenn eine Gesellschaft nicht mit der Erschöpfung ihrer Ressourcen umgehen kann, drehen sich die wirklich interessanten Fragen um die Gesellschaft und nicht um die Ressource. Welche strukturellen, politischen, ideologischen oder wirtschaftlichen Faktoren in der Gesellschaft verhinderten eine angemessene Reaktion

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.