Quotes About Society

The table fellowship of Jesus, with its ethic of grace rather than reciprocity, was creating a new countercultural society in the midst of the Empire.

For many years Ugandan society was not positive about women in sport because they thought sport is masculine and while top sportswomen might be admired as great athletes, they were not admired as great family people because they were off the expected road,

Millions of people across our great land who want nothing more than to be left alone and pursue their own happiness of believing mean-spirited bullshit. Except society has evolved away from ignorance. And that's where we come in." "How?" "We make being shitty feel good again.

The Roman Empire invented snacks, right after the aqueducts. Irrigation flowed, food plentiful, people munching between meals in the city-states. They ate these little, sun-dried meaty things, highly distasteful and falling out of favor until olive oil. I just made all that up. The key to life is making shit up. Everyone does it or society would unravel, like, Gee, your hair looks great! Or: God told me you're wrong

Those] on fixed incomes are the nation's math elite.

I love conversations!" "Why?" "Because we're all crazy!" said Serge. "And that's how society makes progress: imaginations getting together and glancing off each other in accidental tangents of invention.

Something's gone horribly wrong in paradise. There used to be an agreement among criminals that we left the most vulnerable alone.

It's like teachers. They know they're decent folk who are going to do it anyway. And when people are that virtuous, there's only one thing to do under our system: shit on 'em each paycheck.

But when we humans vote for candidates to take away the other guy's benefits—'but keep your fucking hands off my Medicare'—we need to lie to ourselves. It makes us special.

country today. No manners." Serge unscrewed a thermos of coffee. "People used to hang out and actually communicate. But today they head to the mall and sit together at the Yogurt A Go-Go in their own separate spheres of mobile devices." "What's wrong with that?" "It's destroying the art of conversation!" said Serge. "I love conversations!

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

Unlike Darwin, Wallace seems to have had no fear that an understanding of evolution would corrupt public morality—indeed he saw the evolutionary process, and our understanding of it, as potentially ushering in a wonderful future. I think that's because Wallace realised that while evolution by natural selection is a fearsome mechanism, it has nevertheless created a living, working planet, which includes us, with our love for each other, and our society.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.

I wouldn't mind being in a relationship, but there's no reason to marry.

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

I thought I would be married with four children when I was 24 because that's what my mother did. But it didn't turn out like that. There's no reason why. It just didn't happen.

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.