Quotes About Society

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

question by drawing on classical social theory. He understood societies to be established through a form of social contract and to be maintained by individuals' willingness to subordinate personal desires to the regulation of the laws.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Believing with Max Weber that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.

It is stereotypically English to accept that we are born with a fixed 'station' in life. It's what keeps the poor downtrodden.

Gossip is the human condition. It's like water. It finds its way through every crack and gap. It can't be contained.

Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

Maybe I`m getting to the age when I`m starting to be senile or nostalgic or both, but people are so angry now. You used to be able to disagree with people and still be friends. Now you hear these talk shows, and everyone who believes differently from you is a moron and an idiot - both on the Right and the Left.

The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume in stead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

a reader of the Daily Mail brings it down to earth: "Only the 'elite' will go. The rest of us will be left to die.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.

Nowadays you have to go pretty far south in Italy before you encounter the widespread belief that any foreign girl is a whore unless her father and two brothers drive her around in an armoured car.