Quotes About Society

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Le pire aspect matériel, et surtout moral, de la société néo-industrielle, ce n'est pas le travail, mais l'industrie lourde du loisir. Une dés-organisation des loisirs permettrait entre autres de sortir de l'impasse d'un développement touristique qui çà et là tourne au pandémonium. En effet, si les gens trouvaient chez eux ce qu'ils cherchent en vain toujours plus loin, une bonne partie d'entre eux ne cèderaient pas à la panique estivale.

The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it has made even the most dubious "values" and behaviors seem normal and routine.

The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and man in modern Greece; Greek society still fosters in the individual a fierce sense of his privileges, no matter how small, of his rights, no matter how confined, of his personal worth, no matter how low. And to defend it, he will stop, like Achilles, at nothing.

The global monetary crises of the 1990s (Mexico, Russia, Asia and Brazil) proved that our money system is now sick, and that this affects everything. After all, money plays the role of modern society's central information system equivalent to the nervous system in our own bodies. In order to prevent a global monetary meltdown, a unique vision of sustainable abundance, and the mechanisms for achieving this, is proposed.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Private Vices, Public Benefits.

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

private vice can be publicly beneficial

To shew, that these Qualifications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society,

Les fourmis présentent cette formidable opportunité de nous permettre de voir une société fonctionner, une société composée de plusieurs millions d'individus. C'est comme observer un monde. Il n'existe pas à ma connaissance de ville de plusieurs millions de lapins ou de souris...

Ühiskonnas tõuseb lihtsamalt ja kiiremini kõrgele see, kes oskab kütkestada, mõrtsukaid liita, valeinformatsiooni levitada, kui see, kes oskab toota uusi mõtteid ja asju.

Selon Stewart, cette société des Senoïs est totalement exempte de toute forme d'angoisse, de dépression, d'agressivité ou de pulsions suicidaires. Toutes ces tendances sont parfaitement régulées par un sommeil volontairement dompté.

Pour l'instant les mentalités sont encore très réactionnaires et on croit que les hommes sont plus intelligents que les femmes. Mais après tout, c'est peut-être mieux ainsi… Comme ça, nous, les femmes, pouvons agir sans que vous compreniez comment on s'y prend.

white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race

infrastructures they're actively not contributing to through tax avoidance and evasion while hypocritically scorning the underclasses as the scourge of society who sponge off the state when they're the ones who are the biggest scroungers on society with no sense of community responsibility other than a very self-aggrandizing, tax-deductible form of fashionable charity they like to call philanthropism!

what could I say to Clovis? a woman had to obey her husband in those days, Rachel divorce was shameful and only granted on the grounds of adultery, if a marriage didn't work out, it was a life sentence

if she can't get a proper boyfriend at nineteen what hope is there for when she's older?

Bibi replied, gender's a social construction, most of us are born male or female but the concepts of masculinity and femininity are society's inventions, none of it is innate, are you following? no, not really

it's so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed

even though she's considered reasonably attractive (as in not 100% ugly), with her own unique style (part 90s Goth, part post-hip hop, part slutty ho, part alien), she's having to compete with images of girls on fucksites with collagen pouts and their bloated silicone tits out