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Quotes About Society

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
~ Clara Zetkin
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
~ Unknown
No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people
~ Clarence Darrow
The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.
~ Clarence Darrow
It would be better to never teach them anything at all about God than to teach them the word of God and then bring them up in a society that nullifies the whole thing.
~ Clarence Jordan
Criava as mais falsas dificuldades para aquela coisa clandestina que era a felicidade. A felicidade sempre iria ser clandestina para mim. Parece que eu já pressentia.
~ Clarice Lispector
Que la vida es así: se pulsa un botón y la vida se enciende. Sólo que ella no sabía cuál era el botón que había que pulsar. Ni se daba cuenta de que vivía en una sociedad tecnificada donde ella era un tornillo prescindible.
~ Clarice Lispector
she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.
~ Clarice Lispector
La persona della quale parlerò e così sciocca che, a volte, per strada, sorridere gli altri. Nessuno le ricambia il sorriso neppure la vedono.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tem um lado mau – o mais forte e o que predominava embora eu tenha tentado esconder por causa de você – nesse lado forte eu sou uma vaca, sou uma cavala livre e que pateia no chão, sou mulher da rua, sou vagabunda – e não uma 'letrada'. Sei que sou inteligente e que às vezes escondo isso para não ofender os outros com minha inteligência, eu que sou uma subconsciente.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am still corrupted by the condiment of the world.
~ Clarice Lispector
we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,
~ Unknown
I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.
~ Claude Chabrol
Cea mai primitiv? cultur? este întotdeauna o cultur? adult? ÅŸi, prin însuÅŸi acest lucru, incompatibil? cu manifest?rile infantile care pot fi observate în cea mai înalt? civilizaÅ£ie.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
kültürel çeÅŸitlilik olgusu yads?n?r; yaÅŸam?m?z? düzenleyen normlara uymayan ne varsa kültürün d???na, doÄŸaya at?lmas? yeÄŸlenir.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evalua­ tion of the interrelationships among the components of the present- day society.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Kültürlerin çeÅŸitliliÄŸi insan topluluklar?n?n birbirinden yal?t?lmas?ndan çok, onlar? birleÅŸtiren iliÅŸkilere baÄŸl?d?r.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.
~ Unknown
It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.
~ Claudia Rankine
Those who voted in 2016 to be represented yet again by this form of violence, the 62 percent of white men and 47 percent of white women, a plurality, how am I to understand them?
~ Claudia Rankine
It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex. We might want to believe that we can condemn and we can love and we can condemn because we love our country, but that's too complex.
~ Claudia Rankine
La crisis de la educación no es una crisis más entre las muchas crisis que tenemos, sino que la educación está en el centro del problema. El mundo está en una crisis profunda porque no tenemos una educación para la conciencia. Tenemos una educación que en cierto modo le está robando a la gente su conciencia, su tiempo y su vida
~ Unknown