Quotes About Society

I have no problem with animals, I just like people more.

and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

I've come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened.

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.

Clockers asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart? (Hornby's thoughts after reading Clockers by Richard Price)

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it.

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved.

not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.

Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. Edith

What I reckon is: everyone's a loony. However normal anyone seems, deep down inside they're actually mental, every single person in the world and the whole of your life you have to learn not to seem mental to other people, who are all mental, too… If you think how babies act – we really don't stop being like that. Everyone wants to scream loudly, and grab things without asking and break them, but it's not allowed, is it?

Ä°ÅŸte ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi, hem de her gün. Ama kimse beni dinlemek, anlamak istemiyor. Kendimi iyi, neÅŸeli hissetmeliyim onlara göre. Her gün Tom Jones dinlemeliyim mesela, ya da ÅŸu dizide oynayan Avusturalyal? k?z?. Ama ne yapay?m, ben böyle hissediyorum kendimi iÅŸte. Radyoda ruh halime uygun ÅŸeyler çalm?yorlar tabii. Kederliysen toplumun d???nda kal?yorsun.

Most decent people can't sleep easily at night, and that, apparently, is precisely why the world is in such a mess.

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows

The cinema is, after all, the most timid of the arts. It never sets trends, it merely reflects them. The harm has been done long before the movies set cameras on the scene. Warring teen-age gangs antedated Rebel Without A Cause , at least in the United States; and the most infamous teen-age killer in Philippine history operated during the liberation times, long before James Dean was heard of.

But they were corrupt, Father! - They were human, my child. And if we were to reject all worldly authority for that reason, we would have to reject everything: marriage and government and society; the family, the state, and the church. We would have to abolish the world. Is that what you propose to do?

Fiindca toata lumea are o notiune exacta despre cum trebuie sa traiasca..

The fact is, though, that until society understands the process, the law, and the methodology of investigations, it will continue to react to investigations with general distrust. It is a truth that one cannot detect "abnormal" until one understands what "normal" looks like. It is our contention that too much of the public debate has been held on emotional, as opposed to factual and legal grounds.

And all three are different from policing in smaller cities and towns across the country.

A little bit of agitation gives resources to souls and what makes the species prosper isn't peace, but freedom.

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as my heroes. But in the end I wasn't brave enough to resist the current pulling me toward convention.