Quotes About Society

You will soon be released into an area that has been ideologically decriminalized

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

Stern social measures had to be adopted to keep entire populations from disintegrating in an orgy of plenty.

Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.

Maybe if more of our adolescents had been brought up on fairy tales, they would (unconsciously) remain aware of the fact that their conflict is not with the adult world, or society, but really only with their parents. Further, threatening as the parent may seem at some time, it is always the child who wins out in the long

Chrystus jest komiwoja?erem, p?atnym agentem wyzyskiwaczy.

Como si hubiésemos pasado, justamente, de un Antiguo Régimen a uno Nuevo, marcado por la irrupción multiforme de la cuestión de los climas y, cosa aún más extraña, de su vínculo con el gobierno.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

fragilità d'un paese dove le due grandi parti sociali, gli imprenditori e i salariati dell'industria, non considerano lo Stato come cosa propria, ma come cosa estranea, dispensatore di servizi, di favori o di "stangate" … Gli imprenditori italiani non hanno mai considerato lo Stato come un'organizzazione sociale di cui essi fossero direttamente responsabili, sia pure assieme agli altri gruppi sociali che compongono la comunità».

It is a sad reflection upon a society obsessed with sex that people are now desperate for intimacy and love. But then as John Stott has said, the capacity for relationships is part of the divine likeness in man, whereby we are "made to love. To love other people, and above all, to love God.

Because positivism (which repudiated the possibility of a theological or metaphysical explanation of reality) had failed, all that was left for secular society was "cynicism or some mystical leap to knowing.

I agree with Schaeffer that many people do not so much reject Christianity as fail to even consider it because of their presuppositions (however hidden they may be), and therefore they need to be challenged. Apart from those who have gained their presuppositions unconsciously from the society around them, Schaeffer also recognized that some individuals try to bury themselves in themselves, for "down inside of himself, man finds it easy to lie to himself.

Scientists need to be observed and criticized more than any other members of society. I say this not just because of the horrors that might emerge from their laboratories, but also because of the necessity for making them as morally and philosophically answerable as the rest of us.

The whole point I am making is that a hard, irreducible sense of our own self-awareness has been progressively denied us by the inroads of science both as a form and as a creator of our society.

The heralded social dividends of education are largely illusory: rising education's main fruit is not broad-based prosperity, but credential inflation

the ineradicable prejudice that every action intended to serve the profit interest must be anti-social by this fact alone."27

Strange though it sounds, if we're "running out" of anything, it's people.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.