Quotes About Society

We accept human nature as it is, then we base our system on it. Your system must accept that human nature is like that. You get the best out of people for society by incentives and disincentives. If you remove too much of their rewards from the top tier, they will migrate.

for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Black Students, Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.

A lot of stuff that's on today is coonery and buffoonery, and I know it's making a lot of money ... and breaking records, but we can do better.

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible right-wing Nazi thing—violent, racist, and against everything good in life.

The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?

As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.

The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals, but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance.

Hidden beneath localism's DIY attitude is a deep pessimism: it assumes we can't make large-scale, collective social change," worries Sharzer.

People searching for a new relationship with nature and a set of spiritual values to counter the individualism, political economy and environmental impact of modern industrial society latched on to the image of the Ecological Indian.

Did you know America ranks the lowest in education but the highest in drug use? It's nice to be number one, but we can fix that. All we need to do is start the war on education. If it's anywhere near as successful as our war on drugs, in no time we'll all be hooked on phonics.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much anymore.They are all knocking each other down for enjoying themselves.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

How did you do that?" Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things." "My sister is a nice girl," Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

lately is has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...

In every other place on Earth, nobility and integrity are vanishing quickly.

Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep," a

the treachery of the Inhumane society was controlled by one man. As a brilliant scientist, he could have saved the town, but instead he fed on the loneliness and discontent of the fading town, and pushed people in the direction hw thought was right.