Quotes About Society

When humans gather, crime is certain.

And then the Internet happened: and the panopticon society, cameras everywhere and augmented-reality tools gobbling up your peripheral vision and greedily indexing your every spoken word on duty.

It seems people don't want to be awake these days. Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced

and she has yet to see any eunuchs or freemartins at all

Everything is terrorism these days: downloading, uploading, jaywalking with intent to cause fear.

An age or society would then be secular or not, in virtue of the conditions of experience of and search for the spiritual.

It was a prerogative of aristocracy, Ellis reflected, to live upon others, and the last privilege which aristocracy in decay would willingly relinquish.

Good government makes a market economy possible. Period. And bad government, or no government, dashes capitalism against the rocks, which is one reason that billions of people live in dire poverty around the globe.

As the Economist points out, "If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Politician B (more of an elitist): "Our economy is showing appreciable gains: Seventy percent of Americans had rising incomes last year.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

For the record, I would like to state that never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that

Never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that.

Why are babies allowed to cry when they wake up, but adults crying when they wake is frowned upon? Babies are permitted to act like assholes whenever they feel like it and no one blinks...

For the record, I would like to state that never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that.

The woven belt once worn around the waist by both men and women symbolized the participation of individuals in society, their place in the community, and the agreement to be, quite literally, bound by its rules. When the reverse was practised, taking off one's belt signified a readiness to enter the realm of the spirits. For women, the power could be amplified by unbraiding their hair, as mentioned above.

When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?

The world is large," said Okonkwo. "I have even heard that in some tribes a man's children belong to his wife and her family." "That cannot be," said Machi. "You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.

Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi, and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling of systems of excellence because they do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political, or special-interest group. That, in my humble opinion, is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today!

what kind of democracy can exist side by side with so much corruption and ignorance?

whether we look at one human family or we look at human society in general, growth can come only incrementally.