Quotes About Society

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands. And

The world that jibes your tenderness Jails your lust.

Without shared experiences, a heterogeneous society will have a much more difficult time addressing social problems. People may even find it hard to understand one another. Common experiences, emphatically including the common experiences made possible by social media, provide a form of social glue. A national holiday is a shared experience. So is a major sports event (the Olympics or the World Cup), or a movie that transcends individual and group differences (Star Wars is a candidate). So

This conception of representation appears throughout The Federalist Papers. No. 57 urges that: "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Death went well with bare stone and it was the little crowd of modern men who looked incongruous.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery

Acting Up: The Atlanta Heiresses.

Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. With these words, Jane Austen announced to her readers that they were about to meet such a man and the people eager to marry him off. What was more, they were going to have fun. The dark cynicism of Sense and Sensibility was largely gone, blown away by a clean, fresh wind.

Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.

Long ago, there lived a people

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

People are what bother me most in life. It bothers me that so many lack common sense

Why can't people just be really good at something? Why do they have to be the best at something?

People do whatever the hell they want to do at any age they fancy. Last month you were thirty-five. That means you're five years from forty. Do you think that the day you reach forty you will be any different than you were at thirty-nine or forty-one for that matter? People create little ideas about ages so they can write silly self-help books, stick stupid comments in birthday cards, create names for internet chat rooms and look for excuses for crisis that are happening in their life.

Sometimes it would be easier to be a human if there weren't other humans.

Statt Bündel mit ihren wenigen Habseligkeiten trugen die Menschen jetzt Pappbecher mit Starbucks-Kaffee in der einen und Aktenzeichen in der anderen Hand.

The everyday was king. And the courtiers were popularization, superficiality, doubt, cynicism. The century was exhausted.

He should be careful of the influence of those with whom he consorts, and he runs a great risk in becoming a member of a large society, for large bodies tend toward the leveling of individuality to a common consent, the forming and adherence to a creed.

Question: What will happen after Cuba builds communism? Answer: It will start importing sugar. Question: What's the difference between capitalism and communism? Answer: Under capitalism, man exploits man; under communism, it's the other way around)

And I have been fortunate to escape what has been called "that form of snobbery which can accept the Literature of Entertainment in the Past, but only the Literature of Enlightenment in the Present.

People still vote for what they think they want; they're calling on a bright memory of a time that has gone, rather than voting for and demanding what they need for their children.

The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.