Quotes About Society

All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two' I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.

The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.

This thing called Contrmporary America--and its obsession with televisions, game systems, and computers_has gone a littlr far if you ask me. Some call it the Information Age, but I'd tend to say it's more the Sitting-on-one's-butt-and-letting-other-people-do-the-thinking-for-you Age.

All genders?" whispered Nudge. "Aren't there just the two? Or did I miss something?" I shrugged. "No idea. Maybe they've created others." The thought was fairly repulsive, and we made "eew" faces at each other.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

If I could run the world, I'd find another way to treat most of these criminals—most of them, not all of them—but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they're gone. Noah

There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.

Normal behavior, therefore, is when we collectively believe that the circumstances justify the behavior. Likewise, abnormal behavior is when we don't.

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to," said Fang.

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt.

The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

Minciunile sunt fascinante pentru c? ele demasc? paradoxurile societ??ii noastre

I've always felt like we were the civilized ones, fighting against the ones enjoying blowing up kindergartens, taking down civilian airliners, shooting up shopping malls.

Well, how else to explain… all of this? Or me, of course? Or us? Snocones, Pokémon, the Simpsons, the justice system in America, iPods.

American violence mirrors that of my home country. And the laws here, much like where I was born, seem to favor criminals and not victims. Criminals get released very quickly.

Michel Foucault.

Nothing needs reforming," he said by way of beginning, "so much as other people's habits.

What's that old saying? A well-armed society is a polite society.

hands on her hips and sputtered, "This is what's wrong these days. No one knows what's true or not. Anything that gets thrown up there on the internet, people take as fact and gospel truth. No wonder the country's in the state it's in. Everyone's hating on everyone, and nothing gets done

Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society.

Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

I think most couples drift apart because of comparisons. Unfortunately, in our society a perfect match is when the man is more successful than the woman.