Quotes About Society

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivation. Deprived I never felt.

It might be said that the United States is the first known case of a civilization developing through disintegration.

Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) was the man who defined the Communist world as the first society in history condemned to live behind walls in order to stop people getting out.

Pygmalion: "A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman.

Cambridge will probably never get round to formally approving homosexuality, but the type of homosexual involved perhaps prefers a blind eye

Early in the twentieth century, E.E.Cummings was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.

when virtue had been declared a crime, there was no refuge even in reticence.

the men sit around in the square scratching their crotches and dreaming up their next war.

la novela tiene que ser la fotografía que estereotipe los vicios y las virtudes de un pueblo,

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

In olden days, a glimpse of stockingWas looked on as something shocking,But now, God knows,Anything goes.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today....

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation.

Girls usually have a paper m'chÈ face on their wedding day.

Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation

Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

Our mission is in the context of the kingdom of God, inaugurated by Jesus Christ yet still only here in part. Our missiological task is to be agents of God's kingdom rule—transforming not just individuals but society and also seeking the renewal and healing of creation, praying and working for God's kingdom on earth as in heaven.

The church is probably the world's largest civic society organization—present in virtually every nation and every community, and having an immense impact on how people think. If the church can harness this influence to inspire people to care more for creation and to act upon this care, then the world will be a very different place.

Eventually, with new Entertainment-dedicated technologies already on the horizon, the Warhol vision would come about, and everyone would have a show of their own. Eventually the old world would be cut quite loose. Performance Mirrors face to face, the shows would reflect one another until there was 'nothing but interviews, appearances, and acts. In full development, the whole industrial and technical base of contemporary society would be committed to support this new pyramid culture'.

The current philosophy was that Buddha was a communist.

socialism had somehow made time more flexible. There were often situations when 1 PM and 5 PM were interchangeable.