Quotes About Society

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.

toda la historia de la sociedad [...] es una historia de luchas de clases, de luchas entre clases explotadoras y explotadas, dominantes y dominadas...

We seem to live in a world where you have to walk around grinning like a loon. I can't understand all the fuss about Mona Lisa painting, everyone wondering why she's not smiling, if she's depressed or heartbroken. No, she was just normal! Emotions are always extreme these days: you either have to be crying with laughter or crying in pain. No wonder water levels are rising. It's not global warming, it's all the tears from crying.

I'd prefer to have a world of grumpy considerate people than happy selfish ones.

Vanuatu has over 100 languages in use among the 230,000 population. I don't know how a place can run like this. Surely a lot of people have to speak a certain language for it to qualify as one.

Ta?u, ja atmetam dzeju, reli?ija ir mor?lais kodekss, kas tiek izpausts caur le?end?m, m?tiem un vis?da veida liter?riem sacer?jumiem ar m?r?i izveidot tic?jumu, v?rt?bu un normu sist?mu,ar kuras pal?dz?bu regul?t k?du kult?ru vai sabiedr?bu.

The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?

A 'career woman,' Sylvie said, as if the two words had no place in the same sentence. A spinster, she added, contemplating the word. Ursula wondered why her mother was working so hard to rile her. Perhaps you will never marry, Sylvie said, as if in conclusion, as if Ursula's life was as good as over. Would that be such a bad thing? 'The unmarried daughter,' Ursula said, tucking into an iced fancy. It was good enough for Jane Austen.

The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round.

the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.

She supposed she was a little cog in the big wheel of Empire. "Nothing wrong with being a cog," Maurice said, himself now a big wheel in the Home Office. "The world needs cogs.

Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.

She... applied makeup, enough to have made an effort, not enough to be blatantly a woman...

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

It's always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn't think he already is.

The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.