Quotes About Society

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

The only real avenue for social mobility was that of the freedman, for the manumitted slave could rise higher in Rome than in any other slave society. It takes an effort of imagination to conceive of a society where vast wealth was concentrated in so few hands; perhaps the nearest modern equivalent would be Saudi Arabia.34

Of course we're Criminals

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

Civilisation is soap".

In 1986 a typical salesman subscribed to Time or perhaps Playboy, played golf, and sold corporate and government bonds. By 1994 that same salesman read Soldier of Fortune and Guns and Ammo, shot doves, and sold leveraged-indexed-inverse-floating-dual-currency structured notes. This was no coincidence.

When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

When you say 'I want to fit in,' you are essentially volunteering yourself as a victim, and when the thing you want to fit in with is 'society' - well, as 'society' is just another word for government, you're basically begging the government to control you and use you as it wishes for its nefarious purposes, which can be pretty damn nefarious, if 'nefarious' means what I believe it does.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.

Jeder trug eine tiefe Sehnsucht nach Gesellschaft in sich, nach der Gesellschaft intelligenter Wesen, die keine Menschen waren.

But I hope you're not about to give me some kind of conspiracy theory. This is Norway, not America.

Culture is nothing but a set of successful patterns of behaviour grounded in our struggle to survive.

We're living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We'd rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

Fewer than 5 percent of Danes attend church. In godless Denmark, the national government funds a high quality education for all children, rich and poor alike, while in God-fearing America, education is funded through local property taxes, so neighborhood and income dictate a child's educational opportunities. Add in race and ethnicity factors to create a perfectly stratified school system segregated by educational opportunity.

On all levels and in every aspect of our society, the poor are rejected, mistreated, and forced more deeply into their poverty. Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of its history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states

man is essentially a social being. We should not come into existence unless other humans produced us, or stay in existence unless they maintained us in it.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most

Music is always a commentary on society.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.