Quotes About Society

People are the worst animals," Rider said. "They will do anything to each other. Just to indulge their fantasies.

It's an angry world," Bosch said.

The truth was, there was nothing in the law that I objected to more than the death penalty. It was not that I had ever had a client executed or even tried such a case. It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.'s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they've given the cops entails.

It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.

She's interested in Japanese history right now, so that's what I'm reading to her. And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

He didn't understand why he always saw people typing feverishly on their phones. He was sure it was some sort of warning, a sign of the decline

It was simply a belief in the idea that an enlightened society did not kill its own.

dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.

The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

justice is incidental to law and order.

When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. I didn't deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty. Of something.

Nathanael West's Day of the Locust.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Why does it still take as long to clean the house as it did in 1930?

Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.