Quotes About Society

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.