Quotes About Society

What about golf? It's something else. It has its own unique niche in society. The gala country club life. It's a delightful game for elderly executives or even young executives who want to make big deals about selling manufactured products. I can't take it seriously. Deep-sea

Everybody has their field. My field is the muktiple murderer.

Everybody has their field. My field is the multiple murderer.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

Liberty in cyberspace will not come from the absence of the state. Liberty there, as anywhere, will come from a state of a certain kind. We build a world where freedom can flourish not by removing from society any self-conscious control, but by setting it in a place where a particular kind of self-conscious control survives. We build liberty as our founders did, by setting society upon a certain constitution.

The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.

The debate over the use of aggression by police officers is an important one for society to learn more about. A number of contemporary police officers may feel some reluctance to put their hands upon a threatening individual, either because of a fear of unfair scrutiny and criticism, or because of the risk of personal civil liability.

the need for gun control laws and a new moral climate.

Christianity would be powerless to block this trend because it exists only in the realm of the spirit—"like a vision in a pure ideal world." Islam, on the other hand, is "a complete system" with laws, social codes, economic rules, and its own method of government. Only Islam offered a formula for creating a just and godly society. Thus

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.

And what about motor-cars?' 'So much the better,' replied the Great Authority: 'they will no longer be able to run in the streets.

Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Theater is like the leopards, Clem told Diggs. It disrupts the status quo, she tried. Until its ideas bring about lasting change by getting incorporated in society. Maybe. Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy. She's good at that. But if we're talking expedience, law has it all over art, bambina.

Compare Facebook posts to Gutenberg's Bible, and civilization seems to be going down the drain. But compare tweets to indulgences, and it's much of a muchness.

like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.