Quotes About Society

Businessmen warned that idleness breeds mischief and-even worse-radicalism.

the market system handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor."18

Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society—one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

On peut être criminel sans sans avoir jamais manié une arme ou une pince-monseigneur.

Nuestra verdad posible tiene que ser invención, es decir escritura, literatura, pintura, escultura, agricultura, piscicultura, todas las turas de este mundo. Los valores, turas, la santidad, una tura, la sociedad, una tura, el amor, pura tura, la belleza, tura de turas.

Qué raro, verdad, que una mujer no pueda olerse como la huele el hombre.

De ce naiba se interpune între via?? È™i literatur? un soi de zid al ruÈ™inii? În momentul în care începe s? lucreze la o povestire sau la un roman, scriitorul tipic îÈ™i pune guler scrobit È™i se urc? pe dulap. (...) Neghiobii aceÈ™tia cred c? seriozitatea trebuie s? fie solemn? sau s? nu mai fie deloc; de parc? Cervantes a fost solemn.

Libre el bebé y fajado el hombre, la pediatra de adultos, Dama Ciencia abre su consultorio, hay que evitar que el hombre se deforme por exceso de sueños, fajarle la visión, manearle el sexo, enseñarle a contar para que todo tenga un número. A la par la moral y la ciencia (no se asombre, señora, es tan frecuente) y por supuesto la sociedad que sólo sobrevive si sus células cumplen el programa.

A man is always more than a man and always less than a man, more than a man because he has in himself all that jazz suggests and even anticipates, and less than a man because he has made an aesthetic and sterile game out of this liberty, a chessboard where one must be bishop or knight, a definition of liberty which is taught in school, in the very schools where the pupils are never taught ragtime rhythm of the first notes of the blue, and so forth and so on.

Cada vez somos más los que creemos menos en la utilización del humanismo para el nirvana estereofónico de mandarines y de estetas.

E]r gibt uns das Gefühl, weniger einsam zu sein in dieser Sackgasse im Dienste der Großen-Eitelkeit-Idealismus-Realismus-Spiritualismus-Materialismus des Abendlandes, G.m.b.H.

Nada me impresiona más que los hombres que lloran. Nuestra cobardía nos ha hecho considerar el llanto como cosa de mujercitas. Cuando solo lloran los valientes: por ejemplo, los héroes de Homero".

T]hose who love to contrast the past with our recent times should consider what modern civilization has brought us to in terms of war. A change of level has occurred; from the warrior who fights for the honor and for the right of his lord, society has shifted to the type of the mere "soldier" that is found in association with the removal of all transcendent or even religious elements in the idea of fighting.

A political, economic, and social order created merely for the sake of temporal life is exclusively characteristic of the modern world, that is, of the antitraditional world.

With respect to modern civilisation and society, it may indeed be said that nothing possesses a more revolutionary character than Tradition, which — in proper and Hegelian terms — constitutes the 'negation of a negation': for the latter is what, through 'progress', has desecrated everything and subverted every normal order, leading us to the state we find ourselves in today.

The education provided must therefore encourage the development in each citizen of three things; an inquiring mind; and ability to learn from what others do, and reject or adapt it to his own needs; and a basic confidence in his own position as a free and equal member of the society, who values others and is valued by them for what he does and not for what he obtains.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

There are those who say that when civilization progresses a bit further transportation facilities will move into the skies and under the ground, and that our streets will again be quiet, but I know perfectly well that when that day comes some new device for torturing the old will be invented.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face —a full body was unnecessary.

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

as the revolution was made by human beings, it was burdened with their failings.