Quotes About Society

If you even *need* a government, added Stig, you are a life-form flawed beyond redemption.

If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.

We are all actors,' said Connie. 'Our true feelings and desires hidden behind masks carved from the trammels of accepted social norms. Wouldn't you say so?

Governments might come and go, wars will reshape the Ununited Kingdoms many times. But companies will stay, and flourish. Show me any major even on this planet and I will show you the economic reason behind it. Commerce is all powerful, Miss Strange. Commerce rules our lives.

I shrugged. "All kids are like that today. It's a modern thing, caused by too much TV, video games and other instant-gratification bullshit. Either that—or kids are exactly the same and I'm getting crusty and intolerant in my old age.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.

Equality is a proven myth.

A mí me parece que un país civilizado es aquel en que uno no tiene la necesidad de perder el tiempo con la política

Sánchez Mazas) "...sino también hallar un condolieron renacentista cuya figura llegada el momento, catolizase simbólicamente todas las energías liberada por el pánico que la descomposición de la Monarquía y el triunfo inevitable de la "República iban a generar entre los sectores más tradicionales de la sociedad española...

en España tenemos una sanidad y una educación pública que funcionan razonablemente bien, pero no tenemos una vivienda pública digna de tal nombre.

Ahora todo el mundo quiere ser siempre joven; lo entiendo, pero es un poco idiota.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

law lives in conduct, not on the printed page; it exists in the interactions of judges, lawyers, and ordinary citizens.

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

The older I get," Rafe said, shifting gears to negotiate the curving road that led down from the institute, "the more I'm convinced that the only good, working definition of 'normal' is the fact that you're still walking around outside and not locked up in a padded cell.

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

Mass(age) is the message.

Everywhere today, in fact, the ideology of competition gives way to a 'philosophy' of self-fulfillment. In a more integrated society individuals no longer compete for the possession of goods, they actualize themselves in consumption.

Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination? Is it the media that induce fascination in the masses, or is it the masses who direct the media into the spectacle?

Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.

What every society looks for in continuing to produce, and to overproduce, is to restore the real that escapes it.

Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizing his surroundings and thus appropriating his actions.