Quotes About Society

When asked 'Given the chance, how would you change the world ?'] It's a big question. Getting rid of religion would be a good start, wouldn't it? It seems to be causing a lot of havoc.

A virus doesn't understand politics.

Man is naturally a reasoning animal, and is only then truly a man when his passions are tempered and his conduct regulated by reason. The function of reason is the recognition and the realization of truth; truth recognised in speculation is science; truth realized in action is a moral life and a well-ordered society.

But though society had not it's formal beginning from any convention of individuals, actuated by their wants and their fears; yet it is the sense of their weakness and imperfection that keeps mankind together; that demonstrates the necessity of this union; and that therefore is the solid and natural foundation, as well as the cement, of society.

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

The only true and natural foundations of society are the wants and the fears of individuals.

Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Un hombre de negocios se enamora de la prostituta a la que contrata para que le acompañe un fin de semana: Pretty Woman.

A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

Pinchback later explained himself: "I have learned to look at things as they are and not as I would have them....This country, at least so far as the South is concerned, is a white man's country....What I wish to impress upon my people, is that no change is likely to take place in our day and in general that will reverse this order of things.

But in that lightning moment that exposed the country's deep racial divide, there was something about O.J.'s going free that, to my surprise, made me inexplicably happy.

The futility of bourgeois existence is extended to be that of the human situation in general, of existence per se.

I think of culture as the unwritten constitution," said Fritz Maytag. "Rome had no written constitution, just a common understanding about how people should behave. When that fell apart, the Roman Empire did, too.

The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.

La vie ludique est totalement incompatible avec la réalité existante. Tant pis pour la « réalité », ce trou noir qui aspire toute vitalité et nous prive du peu de vie qui distingue encore l'existence humaine de la simple survie.

Obnubilés par la productivité, nos contemporains sont à l'évidence très en retard, en matière de réduction du temps de travail, sur ces sociétés archaïques. S'ils nous voyaient, les moujiks surexploités se demanderaient pour quelle étrange raison nous continuons de travailler. Nous devrions sans répit nous poser la même question.

Le travail peut nuire gravement à votre santé. En fait, le travail est un meurtre de masse, un génocide. Directement ou indirectement, le travail va tuer la plupart des lecteurs de ces lignes.

Nous tuons des gens par millions dans le but de vendre des Big Mac et des Cadillac aux survivants. [...] Morts pour rien - ou, pour mieux dire, morts au nom du travail. Or, le culte du travail ne mérite vraiment pas qu'on meure pour lui.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

And if my thought-dreams could be seenThey'd probably put my head in a guillotineBut it's alright, Ma, it's life and life only

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.