Quotes About Society

It's good to realize that. Not everybody is meant to be a mother or a father, and the more of those assholes figure that out, the better. But for some reason, our biological urge to reproduce is given this gross social weight. Oh, are you pregnant? When are you going to have a baby? Are you? Will you? Won't you? What's wrong with you? It's like if you're not a breeder, you're a nobody.

Culture was culture, and money was money.

I'm just saying, nobody does anything. And the shootings keep coming. Malls, movie theaters, churches, synagogues, fuckin' everywhere. If the needle didn't move for a bunch of dead elementary schoolkids, it's never gonna move.

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information.

Have you met America?

It starts with my mother….Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That's why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.

The times we live in often dictate the type of entertainment we seek -- and we're starting to slide once more into a very dark and scary corner of American life.

Unhealthy societies quashed truth-tellers, hid facts, and curtailed debate (often at the end of a sword or rifle). Information, as the saying went, wanted to be free.

That was key, he long felt, to an informed society, one that cleaved to both empathy and critical thinking: access to information. Simply being able to know things—true things!—meant the world to him.

Politics, despite what some believed, was not morality, nor reflective of it.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

Thus, being ignorant of its nature, the masses suppose that men of wealth, influence, and important family connections are the best...as a result of this error on the part of the commons, the wealth rather than the excellence of a few men has come to control the state

I'm disgusted with how people get themselves to look beautiful; I'm much more fascinated with the other side.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. —Alex Carey, social scientist

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

1894, George Saintsbury was confident that "a fondness for Miss Austen" could be considered "itself a patent of exemption from any possible charge of vulgarity.

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid.

I've come to realize I've spent a lifetime ignoring whole chunks of myself. If feelings didn't fit in with my carefully constructed view of the world and my place in it, I just shut them down. I don't have anyone or anything to blame, unless you can blame a whole society and the way men are taught to look at and approach the world.

Normal? What's normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of that? Where is the problem in adopting a custom that is 'abnormal' if it has no negative effect on the world at large?

in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

The princess stared wide-eyed after her silent teacher. She lifted the hem of her robe and followed. Is this your secret geomancer society? No. Could you please not say 'secret geomancer society' out loud?

definition of infrastructure as the most efficient mechanism through which a society stores or distributes value.