Quotes About Society

A la sociedad, para ser feliz en su anestesia (las hojas del rábano de la esperanza), le sobran los escritores.

Si los hombres del campo tuviéramos las tragaderas de los de las poblaciones, los presidios estarían deshabitados como islas.

Quisiera desarrollar la idea de que el hombre sano no tiene ideas. A veces pienso que las ideas religiosas, sociales, políticas, no son sino manifestaciones de un desequilibrio del sistema nervioso.

Las ideas religiosas, morales, sociales, políticas, no son sino manifestaciones del un desequilibrio del sistema nervioso.

La historia tiene ya el número de páginas suficientes para enseñarnos dos cosas: que jamás los poderosos coincidieron con los mejores, y que jamás la política (contra todas las apariencias) fue tejida por los políticos (meros canalizadores de la inercia histórica).

There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys?

To be the queen of an ancient kingdom, even the abdicated queen, apparently counts for nothing in the universal scheme of things.

There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our Stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Sometimes I wish I could be the kind of person who has one-night stands, and instead of feeling guilty about it feels empowered by it. But I'm not.

Hey, people who proudly declare: "I don't even own a TV!" We're not impressed. We think you're pretentious and/or boring.

A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.

Der ganze Styl seiner Darbiethung erinnerte zwingend an die emotionalen, von einer gänzlich falschen Gnadenlehre inspirierten Predigten gewisser Sectirer, denen noch nicht einmal das Civürecht einen Platz in unserem Gemeinwesen einräumt.

Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

In a 1901 newspaper piece, peaky blinders were referred to as ''Arry' and the young women associated with them as ''Arriet'. These generic terms were used insultingly and could be equated to the derogatory use of 'Kevin' and 'Sharon' in modern society.

Nadie pretende que la gente viva en una barrica. Pero lo que sucede hoy en día me parece excesivo. Las personas son utilizadas mientras las cosas son valoradas, en lugar de que las cosas sean las utilizadas y las personas sean las valoradas.

It is too late for a politics based on law alone, too soon for a politics of grace which sublimates instinct.

There's two hundred million people out there just walkin' around," he'd say ruefully. "And there ain't nobody in charge.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.