Quotes About Society

Civil society is hardly more than a conspiracy by the rich to guarantee their plunder.

there are moments clearly when the seeming solidity of the governance structures are revealed to be rather fragile. And when they are, this is a moment when people begin to call into question all kinds of things about the way in which their society operates. So legitimation crises are extremely troubling moments for governance structures and for elites. As Hall is arguing here, this is invariably the case. And people who want radical change need to be prepared for those moments.

En Estados Unidos, el país más rico del mundo, que posee ventajas sin igual e instituciones democráticas estables, pero que a la vez está, más que ninguna otra sociedad, bajo el dominio de los hombres de negocios.

vamos a poner fin a la raza humana, o la humanidad renunciará a la guerra?».

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained not just in society but in literature.The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know if it can clean up the mess in our minds.

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.

In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish, has nothing to do with anything, is exactly the kind of thinking that ought to be got rid of in our society; on still another hand, having that insight into my reaction does not seem to calm my irritation.

Jonathan never takes anything personally; he always sees himself as a statistical reflection of a larger trend in society.

Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century, but try the shuttle for the ultimate in shunning. All those men in suits, looking at you as if your baby is going to throw up over their speech drafts; all those men in suits who used to look at me with respect when I pulled out my American Express gold card, now barely able to conceal their contempt for me and my portable Wet Ones.

We'd grown up in an era when no one was divorced, and suddenly everyone was divorced.

Where hair dye is concerned, being blond is practically a career.

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye.

conciencia para que encaje en el molde de estos años».

Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?' 'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.

Men are pigs.

There would be no children in the world if men had to bring them into it.

Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/

If we can't be entertained, there're only two places to go. Back to the cave, or on to oblivion.

If a man had to wear heeks they'd be outlawed across the land. Festive in death: chapter 15

They inhabit the earth, live among people. Lots of politics and protocol." Dana sat on the floor. "Anything

In other words, the more differentiated, relatively developed societies have cultivated a comparatively high tolerance for highly individualised ways of further developing the existing art canon; this facilitates experimentation and the breaching of stale conventions and can thus help to enrich the artistic pleasures available through seeing and hearing.

T]he social canons and methods by which people build up instinct controls in their communal life are not brought into being deliberately; they evolve over long periods, blindly and without plan. Irregularities and contradictions in drive-controls, huge fluctuations in their severity or leniency, are therefore among the recurrent structural features of the civilizing process.

Unlike dream ideas, those of the artist are attuned both to the material and to society. They are a specific form of communication, intended to elicit applause, resonance of a positive or negative kind, to arouse jor or anger, clapping or booing, love or hate.