Quotes About Society

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.

A rights-centered society, must, however, take seriously the fact that duties are not natural. They must be taught. Self-interest is common and steady; virtue is rare and unpredictable. A society devoted to guaranteeing a broad scope for self-interested behavior must be leavened by virtue. So measures must be taken to make virtue less rare and more predictable. Among those measures, Americans have always considered education crucial.

24 If so, the more resources that are invested in education, the more stratified society will become. If education is going to create and widen disparities between citizens, it must take care to inculcate some commonalities. Otherwise, links of shared values and understandings will become dangerously attenuated.

Multiculturalism attacks individualism by defining people as mere manifestations of groups (racial, ethnic, sexual) rather than as self-defining participants in a free society. And one way to make racial, ethnic, or sexual identity primary is to destroy alternative sources of individuality and social cohesion, such as a shared history, a common culture, and unifying values and virtues.

Almost everyone will be nice to almost everyone, using money taken from a few.

Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. "It is the duty of society to protect the weak;" but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, "It is the duty of society to enslave the weak." And it is a duty which no organized and civilized society ever failed to perform. Parents, husbands, guardians, teachers, committees, etc., are but masters under another name, whose duty it is to protect the weak, and whose right it is to control them.

The issue now and during the next decade is access to the center of gravity of the technocracy, the leading universities that not only teach subjects but train you in the social rituals that allow you to belong to the technocracy.

The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts' success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.

True music… must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.

Society frowned on killing your best friend. In this case, it would just have to make an exception.

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society.

Hugh shut his eyes for a long moment. The world was sliding sideways, and he really needed to get a grip. "Who would I be marrying?" "The White Warlock." Hugh's eyes snapped open. "You want me to marry a man?

Have you ever noticed, Oscar, that when people say, 'You're a smart woman', what they really mean to say is 'But I am smarter'?

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society. Humanity entitles one to certain rights and privileges, but also implies voluntary acceptance of laws and rules of conduct. It transcends mere biology. It's a choice and therefore belongs solely to the individual. In essence, if a person feels they are human, then they are.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy.

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Anarchy is law and freedom without force. Despotism is law and force without freedom. Barbarism force without freedom and law. Republicanism is force with freedom and law.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.