Quotes About Society

The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses

Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Isabel no era una mujer fácil, pero sí era una esnob, y una esnob radical siempre corre el riesgo de acabar comportándose como una meretriz.

There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case.

Ah, the people. My countrymen, my fellow citizens, my brothers. Mind you, some of them are all right, when you get to know them. But a lot of them aren't; and here's a funny thing, because when you mix them together, the ones that are all right and the ones that aren't, as often as not the resulting blend is far worse than the sum of its parts. Greedier, more cowardly, more stupid.

The people turn out to be—well, people; a collective noun for all those individual men and women, none of them perfect, some of them downright vicious, most of them monumentally stupid. As stupid as the emperor, the great hereditary lords, the priestly hierarchs, the General Staff and the Lords of the Admiralty, the merchant princes and the organised crime barons.

I do housework," she said, "and I mend clothes. I'd do a proper job if I could. I'd have been a surgeon, like my father, except it's not allowed." He frowned. "It isn't?" "Of course not. Women can't be surgeons or clerks or lawyers or lecturers at Temple or merchants. There's not actually a law, but there doesn't have to be. People wouldn't stand for it.

A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.

When people who aren't normal try to make their lives normal it doesn work.

Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.

Could having a face be such an important requirement? Was being seen the cost of the right to see?

What are we to make of a civilization which has always regarded ethics as an essential part of human life," he asked, but "which has not been able to talk about the prospect of killing almost everybody except in prudential and game-theoretical terms?

He reminded MacLeish of the "profound part that culture and society play in the very definition of human values, human salvation and liberation." Therefore, "I think that what is needed is something far subtler than the emancipation of the individual from society; it involves, with an awareness that the past one hundred and fifty years have rendered progressively more acute, the basic dependence of man on his fellows.

Así pues, a finales de la década de 1870, la Sociedad por la Cultura Ética de Felix Adler proporcionó al colectivo judío neoyorquino un medio para afrontar aquella intolerancia creciente en un momento oportuno.

I know three people who are interested in politics. Tell me, what has politics to do with truth, goodness and beauty?

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

If there is any indication of how an author and her books can affect change, look at the proof of her works on society. And ignore the critics and the trolls. -Strong by Kailin Gow on How Her Indie Success helped motivate and inspired others to become authors and how her books with strong women leads helped the film industry to portray more strong women leads

Women can be beautiful and smart. They just choose to play down their intelligence so they can survive and get along with others during the times in history when women didn't have equal rights, couldn't speak out, and were considered property. - Strong by Kailin Gow