Quotes About Society

Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated.

If you are rich, it doesn't matter whether you are Hindu or Muslim, that is how a capitalist society works. Take a look, poverty-stricken Muslims are in a similar situation. The rich, be they Hindu or Muslim, are subjugating the poor.

Suronjon understood that this person who had built a world within herself, who had long stopped venturing outside her household, she who did not differentiate between Parveen and Archana, had suddenly been rattled. She too had begun to ask whether only Muslims felt fury, anger and pride.

My profession is the business of human rehabilitation, which goes today by the name of dancer… All the power of civilized morality, hand in hand with the capitalist economic system and its political institutions, is utterly opposed to using the body simply for the purpose, means, or tool of pleasure. Still more, to a production-oriented society, the aimless use of the body, which I call dance, is a deadly enemy which must be taboo.

But I lived in a world where you could never want what you wanted out in the open.

Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

Five thousand dollars for a baby doll?" Olive fanned herself with the magazine, lifting her peach-preserve hair. "I guess that's why God invented white folks.

Son," my father said, gripping the dessert spoon like a pitchfork. "I have one thing to say to you, as a black man: Roy is a hostage of the state. He is a victim of America. The least you could do is unhand his wife when he gets back.

If you're a grown women and have more than ten dollars in the bank, nobody understands why you can't have a baby.

I did wonder what was going on inside my body, but I won't say what I hoped for. Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

An evil man was more bearable to the majority of men than a good man, who was a constant reproach and therefore to be despised.

What is it that Aristotle said: 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' We have approached that day.

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.

En medio del desorden la ley debe prevalecer o la humanidad perecerá.

Los ciudadanos corrompidos incuban gobernantes corruptos, y es la multitud la que, a fin de cuentas, decide cuándo ha de morir la virtud».

If the middle-class has any function at all it is to work to provide us with taxes, with which we can bribe the mobs of Rome and keep them contented and docile.

The history of the fall of every nation is the history of the rise of the low-bred man and the fall of the gentleman.

En cada generación nacen hombres perversos y el deber de una nación es hacerlos impotentes. Cuando veas a un hombre que ambicione el poder, lleno de odio y desprecio hacia sus semejantes, destrúyelo, Marco. Si alguien pretende cargos porque secretamente ambiciona lo que denomina "las masas" y desea controlarlas para esclavizarlas, prometiéndoles placeres que no han merecido, denúncialo. Debes tener presente Roma.

Más tarde se habría de reír al leer esta ingenua afirmación suya, pues habría de descubrir que un pueblo que sabe leer y escribir constituye todavía mejor clientela para los aventureros y farsantes políticos. La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

la clase media sirve para algo, es para trabajar y pagar impuestos con los que podamos sobornar a la plebe de Roma y tenerla contenta y dócil. Es cierto que los plebeyos de Roma son como animales, pero son muchos y necesitamos sus votos para alcanzar el poder. Que la clase media nos sirva hasta el final, porque los nuevos ciudadanos no piensan más que en el trabajo, la industria, el ahorro y otras preocupaciones vulgares por el estilo.»

De una cosa podemos estar seguros, muchacho, este alivio temporal de los impuestos acabará en impuestos mayores y en un colapso final. Se trata puramente de un asunto de contabilidad. ¿Pero es que a la gente le importa el presupuesto y la dura realidad de que uno no puede gastar lo que no tiene sin ir a parar a la bancarrota? ¡No! Gritarán "¡viva!" al tirano Cinna, pensando en la ganancia inmediata a expensas de la nación.*

Once he wrote to a friend, "There are only two kinds of people in this world: Perpetual children, who are a terrible danger to civilization, and those who were born adult. When the 'children' take over this country and adults are in the minority, then it's the end for this country. I have known adults who were chronologically only ten years old, and children who were seventy-seven. One of these

El hombre verdadero se aparta de la chusma vociferante que pulula por los mercados que aclama constantemente y luego es la primera en denunciar.