Quotes About Society

Shep claimed eating cake like that so early in the morning was a 'whore's breakfast.' The rest of them didn't care. They were happy little whores who didn't worry about saving a morsel.

True love is not a crock, but patriotism is.

I will be­lieve that the bat­tle of fem­i­nism is over, and that the fe­male has reached a po­si­tion of equal­ity with the male, when I hear that a coun­try has al­lowed it­self to be turned up­side-down and led to the brink of war by its pas­sion for a to­tally bald woman writer.

That shows how impossible it is to be a woman. One's whole life depends on one's looks but one mayn't speak of one's own beauty

It struck her that the difference between men and women is the rock on which civilization will split before it can reach any goal that could justify its expenditure of effort.

Honour often seems a highly artificial convention, but life in any level of society where it has been abandoned astonishes by its tortuousness

Capitalism has grooved society with a number of deep slots along which human beings can roll to a fixed destination. When a man takes charge of a factory the factory takes charge of him.

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

We're turning into a geriatric society. The old are fighting back. They have the great advantage of an irresistible recruitment programme. It's called living.

La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados.

Und so wie die Freiheit in unserer Gesellschaft an Strahlkraft zugunsten der Sicherheit verliert, ist es auch mit dem Abenteuer. Vielleicht sind wir Menschen so wenig frei wie unsterblich. Unfreiheit aber lässt sich abschütteln, teilweise wenigstens, wenn wir die Freiheit zur Selbstbestimmung wagen.

Denn Erkenntnis – auch über uns selbst – lässt sich nicht im Gänsemarsch gewinnen. Und eine Gesellschaft, die das Suchen oder Forschen nicht zulässt, ist dem Untergang geweiht.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.

Tu as rdv la viande, la salade, les fruits. Tu m'as dit : - Vous mangez de la bête! ... Vous mangez de l'herbe! ... Vous mangez de l'arbre! ... J'ai essayé de sourire. J'ai répondu : - Nous sommes des barbares... J'ai fait venir des roses. Tu as cru que cela aussi nous le mangions...

By working so hard at self-improvement we lose the energy and ability to participate in any form of social change

The ego (one's self-perception) is a very shaky structure, easily undermined by unconscious drives and desires. It is possible to repress those drives for a while and feel like a capable, rational subject, but eventually they will reveal themselves in the form of idiosyncratic behaviour, slips of the tongue, even illnesses. The perception that one can craft an identity by copying that of someone else has created particular problems in today's society.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

f white Americans were to leave the country tomorrow, in ten years -America would be a ghetto. You can see the truth of this when you look at many of our major cities that are run by black mayors, black-dominated city councils, and black police chiefs. These cities are usually horrible places to live. Yet blacks who live in black-ruled cities can't see the truth: their own immorality is the cause of black poverty, crime, and family destruction!

Religion engenders both inclusion and exclusion. It spawns as much conflict in society as it does cohesion.

there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]

In the words of the Iranian political philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush, "We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

A true Sufi, Shaykh Haeri writes, "does not separate the inner from the outer," for when you "start by purifying your inner self, you end up being concerned with the outer and with society.

When it comes to dealing with a social movement, society has only two options: either it can address the members' grievances, thereby making the movement irrelevant, or it can deflect those grievances and further radicalise the movement. Or as Sidney Tarrow puts it, actions that begin in the streets [can be] resolved in the halls of government or by the bayonets of the army.