Quotes About Society

For love's sake women must reject the roles that are offered to them in our society. As impotent, insecure, inferior beings they can never love in a generous way.

Society seems to find it irresistible to characterise the "unworldliness" of the male intellectual and academic in terms of his failure to control the women in his life.

The most holy band of society is friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'

Though the Church authorities were clearly interested in trying to impose a tighter moral discipline on society, they were never completely successful in extinguishing popular culture's hold on Christmas celebrations.44

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

Marriage was a noble institution, she declared, provided the husband did not take unfair advantage of his superior legal position and the wife did not succumb to the pressures of society and become a nonentity.

only the timid, the insecure and the ignorant conformed to the rules that society made.

The separation of church and state, however interpreted, did not signify the separation of church and society.

To look upon religion as the ultimate source of morality, and hence of a good society and a sound policy, is not demeaning to religion. On the contrary, it pays religion—and God—the great tribute of being essential to the welfare of mankind. And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher, of venerating and giving obeisance to something above himself.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

There's no doubt war is a proper subject for the philosopher, partly because it gives rise to some of the greatest and most important upheavals, and then for its connections with endless ramifications of the theories of society, man, and other living beings.

The Roman jurisconsults established worship of God as the first and foremost part of the natural law of the gentes. For where there is neither rule of law nor force of arms, and men are accordingly in a state of complete freedom, they can neither enter nor remain in society with others except through fear of a force superior to them all, and, therefore, through fear of a divinity common to all. This fear of divinity is called 'religion'.

With the sole aim of liberating themselves from the servitude of religion, which alone could preserve them in society, and, lacking any other restraint, they turned their backs upon the true God of their fathers, Adam and Noah, and descended into a bestial liberty in which, dispersed throughout the great forest of the earth, they lost their language and weakened every social custom.

Los hombres ambiciosos que afectan señoría en sus ciudades, ábrense en ellas rumbo mostrándose parciales de la muchedumbre, y halagándola con ciertos simulacros o apariencias de libertad.

Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.

believed that education was damaging—too much blood to a woman's brain would cause reproductive malfunction. To prove her

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

The revolution will not be televised

America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last week. Not to face now or the future, but to face backwards.

Whitey's on the moon

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.