Quotes About Society

Over here in America, the dishonorable ones are accepted and sometimes even welcomed, and often are given authority over other people's lives, while the honorable ones are dealt with dishonorably.

Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural existence and functioning since times immemorial.

Facebook does not favor hatred. But hatred favors Facebook

There is a verse in the Bible which reads: 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter'. How did we get here America? When did we turn our backs on the precepts and common sense on which this country was founded? As a country, we have collectively lost our way, and nothing short of a total about face can save us!

People just can't get along anymore. There's no commitment, no loyalty, no trust.

Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, those 'haves' should share with the 'have nots.' And because there is not much to share anyway, in the end that egalitarianism boils down to the equal distribution of poverty.

Som nau?ená, že ke? sa ma ktosi spýta, ako sa mám, vždy odpoviem: ?akujem, dobre. ?udí nezaujíma, ako sa máš, hovorila mi mama.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are the architects of human souls and the critics are the architects of the writer's souls.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Society has no place for active lunatics.

Selling rock is the best way I know to get a good look at human nature on the flip side, down and desperate, with none of the fake bullshit that's supposed to make us civilized.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

But my dear Crito, why should we care so much about what the majority think?

If you realize that you are society. The society of the world will cross you.

Sometimes I think the greatest achievement of modern culture its its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modern society seems to me a celebration of all the things that lead away from the truth, make truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.

Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

nuestra sociedad nos trata como individuos completamente obsesionados por el poder, el sexo y el dinero, y como si hubiera que distraernos en todo momento de cualquier contacto con la muerte o con la vida real.

Notre société est vouée presque exclusivement au culte de l'ego et à ses tristes fantasmes de réussite et de pouvoir ; elle célèbre les forces mêmes d'avidité et d'ignorance qui sont en train de détruire notre planète.

Ah, yes," he replied, "that's true; this is such a civilized country. They have such marvelous houses for dead corpses. But haven't you noticed? They have such wonderful houses for the living corpses too.

Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing, poisoning, destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay . . . We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.

Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.