Quotes About Society

Most have neither done a practice nor had a conscious longing for awakening.2 Many spiritual teachers speculate that this is happening because we live in desperate times and need an influx of aware, creative, compassionate people who will actively serve others and contribute fresh ideas. This is a radical change from the traditional spiritual path of withdrawing from society and from the 1960s movements when young people felt a need to drop out of the mainstream to seek social alternatives.

In America, the pool is a privilege. People have historically had complicated feelings about water. Mixing in it deliberately—as men and women, as rich and poor, as black and brown and white—can stir up all kinds of fears. As a society, we've kept different groups apart based on those fears.

Don't believe them when they tell me there ain't no cure. The Rich stay healthy, the Sick stay poor.

It is discouraging to find a woman who knows much about theoretical chemistry, and who cannot properly wash and iron a shirt.

One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.

In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

The more I consider the subject, the more strongly I am convinced that the most harmful effect of the practice to which the people in certain sections of the South have felt themselves compelled to resort, in order to get rid of the force of the Negroes' ballot, is not wholly in the wrong done to the Negro, but in the permanent injury to the morals of the white man.

The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour.

Magnificence, like the size of a fortune, is always comparative, as even Magnificent Lorenzo may now perceive, if he has happened to haunt New York in 1916; and the Ambersons were magnificent in their day and place. Their

Booth Tarkington

The main hero of this culture is a criminal, a murderer. The crime story is the only contemporary narrative that is able to capture the collective imagination... The outlaw is truly sovereign and even sacred because he or she represents not (ordinary) life but death in a society for which death is the absolute master... Of course, such killers who kill only to become sovereign and maybe even sacral are rare (mostly to be found in Dostoyevsky's novels).

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

C'est drôle comme les gens qui se croient instruits éprouvent le besoin de faire chier le monde.

When law and morality contradict each other the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect of the law. — Frederic Bastiat

Die Künste, die den Müll der Welt zu spiegeln vorgeben, vermehren ihn nur.

Simplificando, podría decirse que cada hombre se encuentra situado en una área social de matrimonio, y la regla establece que puede tomar esposa fácilmente en su área y en las áreas inferiores.

En las relaciones entre los sexos y en las bodas era donde más se ponía de manifiesto la conciencia de la jerarquía social.

Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.

The rules of etiquette were established mostly by women, are chiefly for the benefit of women, and are mainly suited only to the nature of women; and a too punctilious observance of them by a man, goes to show that over-refinement has nearly unsexed him.

It is of little use to quarrel with particular fashions, however absurd. Fashionable follies seldom stand their ground long enough to be made the objects of serious attack. And where they give way to it, it is only to reappear in some new guise.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

The stress that kills or cripples most of the population comes from people being too hard on themselves when they don't live up to their own imaginings about how other people think they should behave.