Quotes About Society

If we gleaned every asshole," Scythe Volta had once told Rowan, "there'd be virtually no one left.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Have you ever considered how lonely it is to be the girl on a pedestal?

Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.

This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?' 'Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

unwinding is, by law, painless.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?

You've hit the nail on the head, Anastasia. That's exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

they were called scythes rather than reapers, because they were not the ones who killed; they were merely the tool that society used to bring fair-handed death to the world.

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Not that I intend to call the numbers on the cards, but it's something to collect.

Martwe dzieci stawia siÄ™ na piedestale, a te chore psychicznie zamiata pod dywan

Tell me, Connor, is this the first time you've been pregnant?' 'What?' 'Just answer the question, yes or no.' 'Yes. I mean no! Shut up! What kind of stupid-ass question is that?' Cam smiles. 'You see? You're damned no matter how you answer. By playing both sides, Proactive Citizenry keeps people focused on choosing between two different kinds of unwinding, making people forget that the real question...' 'Is whether or not someone should be unwound at all.

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when "should be" gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

karena tanda pertama adanya peradaban selalu saja sampah. [P. 73]

But Citra could. She knew that calling, too. Their minds and bodies had spent a year being trained to be society's perfect killers. Ending life had become a part of who they were. And she couldn't blame him for wanting to turn his blade on the corruption that was rooting its way through the scythedom—but wanting to, and actually doing it, were two different things.

If there wasn't unwinding, there'd be fewer surgeons, and more doctors. If there wasn't unwinding, they'd go back to trying to cure diseases instead of just replacing stuff with someone else's.

Are you heading out or heading home?" asked the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

Les gens peuvent se conduire en monstres. Que ce soit dans leurs actes ou dans leur nature, peu importe. Le résultat est le même. — Alyssa