Quotes About Society

Para combatir la ilegalidad generalizada, México necesita políticos comprometidos con la ley. Por desgracia, ahora tiene un presidente que ha defendido públicamente el asesinato y la violación como usos legítimos de la fuerza.

la corrupción, un cáncer pavoroso que nos devora hasta nuestros días, llegó con los españoles, al igual que la viruela y otras devastadoras enfermedades?

En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.

el clero continuó gobernando las mentalidades y dirigiendo exitosamente a la nación a la ruina y al atraso.

Es evidente que la moral católica fue, es y será una de las causas más evidentes del atraso mexicano…

hoy los comediantes y bufones encabezan a varias naciones. Cuando un bufón representa a una nación y la comanda, algo está podrido en esa sociedad.

Es también evidente afirmar que, si las condiciones político-sociales son autoritarias o, cuando menos no ciertamente democráticas, las decisiones judiciales padecerán y con ellas, muy probablemente, quienes las emiten.

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

What role models do kids have nowadays?Some ridiculously overpaid footballer prone to childish tantrums?The morons in the Big Brother house,perhaps? Or maybe the various gun-toting rappers who regularly delight us with their expletive-ridden vocabulary and eccentric attitude to women?

Let's get one thing straight:when gangs of youth throw stones at passing cars,shout abuse at innocent people going about their daily business or beat up random passers-by,they are not doing it 'because there is nothing to do' they are doing it because it's fun and in modern day, punishment-free Britain, there is no reason for them not to.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society...Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.