Quotes About Society

I honestly don't know how anyone functions in this society without a law degree.

Americans lived in the moment, without history and thus without prophecy.

One can be a product only of one's own era, not anyone else's.

a place where the worst elements of humanity had defeated civilization.

In short, drugs are the worst thing that has happened to American law enforcement since Prohibition.

There is a vitality here of people, pursuing their own lives, unburdened by government interference. The price of nearly absolute freedom is borderline anarchy." "A little law and order wouldn't hurt." "Whose law? Whose order? Fascists and Communists have in common the desire to get everyone into lockstep. I don't want to get into lockstep.

Subdesenvolvimento não se improvisa. É obra de séculos.

Nem toda mulher gosta de apanhar, só as normais.

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.

Hoje é muito difícil não ser canalha. Todas as pressões trabalham para o nosso aviltamento pessoal e coletivo.

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

Cada um de nós, individualmente, pode não ter o sexo na cabeça; mas o povo o tem.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

Some folks just have to have the liquor, times like these." He eyed a policeman on the corner. "That's what the cops here seem to think, in this city, at any rate. I've never seen a drunk arrested yet, not just for being drunk.

too] narrowly on the Mormon experience to the exclusion of forces operating within the larger society." "Notwithstanding," he proclaimed it "a valuable contribution to Mormon history. . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the development of Mormon racial policies.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.

Technologies come and go. The world remains a world of squares and towers.

When we speak of 'populism' today,1 we sometimes mean nothing more than a politics that is audible as well as intelligible to the man in the street Ã¢â'¬â€œ or, to be precise, the man and woman slumped on their sofa, their attention skipping fitfully from flat-screen TV to laptop to smartphone to tablet and back to television, or the man and woman at work, sitting in front of desktop PCs but mostly exchanging suggestive personal messages on their smartphones.

the secret of our success as a species 'resides . . . in the collective brains of our communities

Americans could once boast proudly that their system set the benchmark for the world; the United States was the rule of law. But now what we see is the rule of lawyers, which is something different.

the dichotomy between network and hierarchy is an ancient idea.

en Latinoamérica las constituciones se utilizan como instrumentos para subvertir el propio imperio de la ley