Quotes About Society

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

The city-state was the means by which the Greek consciously strove to make the life both of the community and of the individual more excellent than it was before.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Like it or not, we are all insectoid aliens burrowing within our urbaniod bodies. -- Timothy Leary

education combined with the restoration of civility in public discourse can reduce the vitriol that widens the fissures in society that Russia and others exploit.

Advertisements at 1 a.m. are nauseating.

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

The higher the sky, the lower the people, he thought as he rang the doorbell. Why did there have to be people in every kind of landscape?

Man kann sich die Konzeptionen, mit denen Massen gefüttert und bewegt werde, gar nicht kindlich genug vorstellen. Echte Ideen müssen, um massenbewegende historische Kräfte zu werden, im allgemeinen erst bis auf die Fassungskraft eines Kindes heruntersimpifiziert werden.

David,you're my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don't care what the world says. Let's defy them all, my darling. - Maddy

Boobs are overrated, if you ask me.

Breaking away from the illusion of market objectivity is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

the demands of a highly organized industrial society made people behave in more disciplined, calculating and cooperative ways.

Our story of bus drivers reveals the existence of the proverbial elephant in the room. It shows that the living standards of the huge majority of people in rich countries critically depend on the existence of the most draconian control over their labour markets – immigration control.

It shows that the living standards of the huge majority of people in rich countries critically depend on the existence of the most draconian control over their labour markets – immigration control. Despite this, immigration control is invisible to many and deliberately ignored by others, when they talk about the virtues of the free market.

I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you'll find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil. I will be struggling thirty years later. I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well – disproportionately well.

Economics is (almost) about Life, the Universe and Everything.

You know about psychosis, Doctor. You should recognize the symptoms. Grandiose delusions. Religious mania. Paranoid violence. Sounds like society to me.

See, you have the choice we didn't. You wanna think about it though, you do, before you decide to throw your lot in with us. Cause it's not just about living in society's stitches, you know, the bits in between, the squats and secret places. It's about being Fixed.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Jean Paul Sartre, que estaba al mando de un puesto en la Línea Maginot, escribió: «No habrá lucha, será una guerra moderna, sin masacres, igual que la pintura moderna sin asunto, la música sin melodía, la física sin materia».

Because culture is learned socially, we generally think of social structure as a driver of culture, but these examples suggest the reverse, that cultural behavior can shape society.