Quotes About Society

So long as a man appeared to be respectable he could do as he pleased.

Aristotle believed democracy could exist only because of slavery, which gave citizens the leisure for higher pursuits. (Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.)

But France did not have a normal government: it had a collection of caffeinated intellectuals

Modern versions of this argument held that American democracy was born of the slave society of rural Virginia, because slavery gave men like Washington and Jefferson the free time to better themselves and to participate in representative government.)

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.

Eventually, television got louder and faster, and closed up the spaces between sentences that used to indicate human thought was going on.

Una cosa era demoler media docena de casas y echar a las familias que vivían en ellas, y otra muy diferente privar a diez leones, cuatro jirafas, un rinoceronte y una docena de avestruces de su único medio de vida. La opinión pública británica jamás consentiría la menor crueldad contra unos animalitos.

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinks—a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

They weren't bad guys, just products of a society run by men and infused with rules to leave everyone sexually frustrated. Even in marriage sex in India is often just a brief, clumsy fumble in the dark, trying not to wake up grandma who's sleeping in the same bed.  

That which is best for an individual's interest may not be best for the common good.

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

We can mark a day on the calendar where America has fallen to a new low. This is now the condoning of taking matters, and the law, into you own hands and going to any lengths - even jungle savagery.

The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Cultural Values Determine Behavior.