Quotes About Society

Les Américains ne sont pas plus violents par nature que n'importe quel autre peuple. Si leur société est aussi mortelle, c'est parce que les armes y sont très largement disponibles.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

violence is committed by people who look and act like people

A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Every day he stood in front of the Bank of America. You're trapped in the belly of a big pink pig, he said. We ignored him. We had work to do.

Between 1968 and 2015, more than 1.5 million people were killed by shootings—more Americans than in all our wars combined.

I believe powerfully that we who have the power should strive to extend the gift of education to everyone. Education is the most important investment a developed society can make, and the most effective way of nurturing a developing one.

But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society.

Everybody is entertained to death.

American television really is pathetic.

He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.

a truth about human society: not everyone wanted freedom. When a people willingly or unwillingly become wards of their rulers, they eventually lose their capacity for self-determination. Like helpless children, they actually prefer security in exchange for their freedom. Better the misery they know while being taken care of than the misery they do not know being freely accountable for their own actions.

the average citizens, the backbone of the civilization. These were the ones Enoch felt were exploited at the expense of this class warfare for power. The society appeared to be an advancement of civilization, but Enoch believed it moved toward the inevitable centralization of power into the hands of the elite priestly caste, of which he was one. It remained a point of cognitive dissonance for him.

The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives

Neighbors aren't really neighbors anymore. They're strangers, for the most part.

We gave our kids old-fashioned names. Our little boy is Hunter, and our little girl is Gatherer.

Information technology is never asleep, as is manifested through cell phones, e-mail, instant messaging, beepers, and other electronic leashes. We cannot get away. There is no "downtime" anymore. Our support systems are eroding

sounds absurd, but Nilsen may partly have murdered in anguished assault against social injustice; he was not killing individuals, but society itself.

They, society, hate you because they don't want your help. You remind them of how weak willed and sheep like they are. How gleeful they are, deep down, to be ordinary. They don't want heroes. They don't want special people around them. Because if there are special people and they aren't one of them - well who wants that? Who wants a constant reminder that they aren't even trying to be special?

The time was one of great organization and aspiration, of communities, communes, and committees.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.