Quotes About Society

Si la plata era lo único que justificaba las muertes y si lo que han hecho la han hecho por plata y ahora la queman, quiere decir que no tienen moral, ni motivos, que actúan y matan gratuitamente, por el gusto del mal, por pura maldad, son asesinos de nacimiento, criminales insensibles, inhumanos [...] Pero todos comprendieron que ese acto era una declaración de guerra total, una guerra directa y en regla contra toda la sociedad.

Our constitution is of course not written; it just conceptually encompasses the basic values and culture that are currently in place (and that change with time).

Warren life doesn't make for secrecy.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

I get enough of crowds even when they're happy... if they're scared they're either going to crucify somebody or worship him

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?

Sure they're animals. You think you just found out a new principle? Sometimes I wonder just how naive you really are. The French lords and ladies used to screw after the guillotinings. The old Romans used to stuff each other during the gladiatorial matches. That's entertainment, Garraty. It's nothing new.

tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...

A part is not just a temporary emotional state or habitual thought pattern. Instead, it is a discrete and autonomous mental system that has an idiosyncratic range of emotion, style of expression, set of abilities, desires, and view of the world. In other words, it is as if we each contain a society of people, each of whom is at a different age and has different interests, talents, and temperaments. In

People are no longer human beings. We should be called human doings.

The truth is, the only difference between good girls and bad girls is: Good girls just haven't been caught yet.

fraud, by definition, requires deceit, something women are highly evolved at.

Women are born; men must be made.

At present, Keynes said in 1926, everything is politics, and nothing policies.

It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Perhaps, then, the words male and female have no general meaning.

Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.

Gregory S. Paul, in the Journal of Religion and Society (2005), systematically compared seventeen economically developed nations, and reached the devastating conclusion that 'higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies'.

Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death, we have abolished the family as a unit of economic self-sufficiency, and substituted the state.

Do we really need policing — whether by God or by each other — in order to stop us from behaving in a selfish and criminal manner?

Money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism.

Listen to the Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University: 'AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.'121