Quotes About Society

When I compared them to Naomi, I sensed an unmistakable difference in refinement between those who are born to the higher classes of society and those who aren't... there's no concealing bad birth and breeding.

The conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people

There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because the range was so narrow, people were always looking out for the tiniest variations. It was a real test of ingenuity to look different and attractive, and yet similar enough to everyone else so that nobody with an accusing finger could pinpoint what exactly was heretical.

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

The old man, who shuffled along with great difficulty, bent double, was blind. To attract the attention of passersby,he sang a heart wrenching tune. Every time my father heard the song, he said to himself that society must change.

It will seem odd, I suppose, that I should go on in this vein, as if I too were grumbling in my dotage. Yet of this I am convinced, that the conveniences of modern culture cater exclusively to youth, and that the times grow increasingly inconsiderate of old people.

A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.

A crowd isn't formed after people gather; people gather after the crowd forms.

If covering our bodies with clothes represents a cultural step forward, there is no guarantee that in the future masks will not be taken equally for granted.

Only man has turned away from the law of survival of the fittest, taken up the weak and ailing, and guaranteed their right to survival. So heroes perish, but the weak live on. One measure of a civilisation, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. There's even a political scientist (anonymous) who claims that our modern age is an age of the patient, by the patient, for the patient.

The reason men somehow go on living, enduring the gaze of others, is that they bargain on the hallucinations and inexactitude of human eyes.

Indeed, jealousy is an animal feeling, capable even of rising to murder. There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.

I wonder whether the nation itself is not an enormous mask intolerant of the rivalry of individual masks.

In such a cruel, self-centered crowd would there ever be some soft-hearted fellow who would sell me his face?

If I were just in trousers, somehow I could go out into the world. It would make no difference whether I was naked from the waist up and my feet bare just as long as I had trousers on. Otherwise if you go walking around the streets without trousers, no matter how new your shoes and how elegant your coat, it's enough to raise a big hue and cry. Enlightened society is a kind of trouser society.

If I'm to be forever stared at like that, I really will end up a monster! At length, unable to stand it, I brushed aside the forest of humanity and, as if taking shelter in some cave, rushed headlong into a nearby movie house, a "market place of darkness"—the only safe place for a monster.

No matter how much television dramas go on singing the cloying praises of the family, it is the outside world, full of enemies and lechers, that passes on a man's worth, pays his wages, and guarantees him the right to live.

Los estafadores crearon la demanda de microscopios. Por eso, los criminales son indispensables en la sociedad. Aquí fundamos Comercio Pánico con el objetivo de sistematizar los crímenes y así acelerar el proceso de desarrollo social. Esperamos que, con base en este principio, todos nuestros empleados colaboren orgullosamente con el aumento de la felicidad social.

Por otro lado, los criminales producen, según la circunstancia, impresiones morales o trágicas, cultivando así el sentido estético del pueblo. De esta manera, los criminales ofrecen tanto diversiones como actividades artísticas en una sociedad cada vez más monótona.

Moneypenny was the brainy female character. Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: smart or pretty. I had long resigned myself to category one, and as long as it got me to Harvard, I was happy. Except, it hadn't gotten me to Harvard. Clearly, it was time to switch to category two.

For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

That is all you can think of: what people will say! One goes from one end of the world to the other to hear the same story. Does it matter what people say?

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was even made.