Quotes About Society

Ä°ÅŸte bu doÄŸru. Burada, Türkiye'de insan hiçbir ÅŸeye akl?yla inanamaz.

We might call this confused, hazy state melancholy, or perhaps we should call it by its Turkish name, hüzün, which denotes a melancholy that is communal rather than private.

en el país de los infieles francos todos los perros tienen dueño. Al parecer los pasean por las calles arrastrándolos con cadenas al cuello como si fueran los más miserables esclavos. Dicen que además introducen a esos pobres perros a sus casas y que incluso los meten en sus camas. ... No son cosas que los francos puedan comprender el que los perros paseemos en manadas y gavillas por la calles de nuestro Estambul...

My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much.

Asl?nda hemen evlenelim demeliydim ona. Toplumumuzu ayakta tutan pek çok saÄŸlam evlilik bu tür f?rt?nal? ve mutsuz aÅŸklar? unutmak için yap?lm??t?r.

Por aquellos años su padre comprendía que un pueblo podía cambiar su modo de vida, su historia, su tecnología, su cultura, su arte y su literatura, pero no le concedía la menor posibilidad de que cambiara sus gestos.

Our ancestors used to torture criminals before they executed them—it's in times like these that one truly understands the importance of tradition.

You're just a typical little European from Ni?anta?. Not only were you brought up to look down on your own traditions, you also think you live on a higher plane than ordinary people. According to your kind, the road to a good moral life is not through God or religion, or through taking part in the life of the common people—no, it's just a matter of imitating the West.

En nuestro edificio nunca vi a nadie de nuestra familia rezando, ni ayunando, ni susurrando oraciones. Desde cierto punto de vista, los míos vivían como asustados burgueses franceses, voluntariamente apartados de la religión pero temerosos de intentar un último ajuste de cuentas con ella

Ali u zemlji kao što je naša, zemlji u kojoj je ljudski život ovoliko jeftin, nepromišljeno je upropastiti se zbog onoga u što vjeruješ. Velika na?ela i vjerovanja nisu za nas: oni su za ljude iz bogatih zemalja.

Peki özgürlüÄŸü kim istiyor? Devlet istemiyor! Tüccarlar buna fazla merakl? deÄŸiller. Toprak aÄŸalar? nefret ediyor! Köylüler duymam??. BaÅŸka kim var? Ä°ÅŸçiler?.. Bir de ben! Hah, hah...

Poezija nam nije pomogla da na?emo sre?u; stoga je sad pokušavamo na?i u zakrilju politi?koga plašta

The time will come when human drones will be ostracized from society as nobodies, as thieves of honest men's efforts, thieves of the results of honest men's labor. The coming civilization will not tolerate these thieves of society, these lazy vagabonds who do nothing but steal the products of their labor and demoralize society by their vicious example.

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

poverty is the open-mouthed hell which yawns beneath civilization, we

Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.

We live in a time when moderates are treated worse than extremists, being punished as if they were more fanatical than the actual fanatics.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.