Quotes About Society

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

What I want to know is that why we, as a nation, we are telling women that it's okay if a man is power tripping on her through either verbal advances or whatever. Why are we normalizing this kind of behavior?

The thrill of science is the process. It's a social process. It's a process of collective discovery. It's debate, it's experimentation and it's verification of claims that might be false. It's the greatest foundation for a society.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.

Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.

Around the world, including in the U.K., a version of Right-wing politics is growing that is based on dividing societies.

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Amerikanvari haz?rlanm?? ?stakozu sevip sevmemekte özgürüm, ama insanlar? sevmiyorsam bir zavall?y?m ve gün ?????nda bana yer yok. ...

Nu exist? tat? bun, asta e regul?; nu trebuie învinuiÈ›i b?rbaÈ›ii, ci instituÈ›ia paternit??ii care e putred?. S? faci copii e foarte bine; s? ai îns? copii: ce nedreptate!

în societatea noastr?, care se afl? în continu? miÈ™care, întârzierile dau uneori avansuri.

Pas besoin de gril, l'enfer c'est les autres.

Behind me, in the town, in the big straight streets lit by the cold light of the street lamps, a tremendous social event was dying: it was the end of Sunday.

Tal vez sea imposible comprender el propio rostro. ¿O acaso es porque soy un hombre solo? Los que viven en sociedad han aprendido a mirarse en los espejos, tal como los ven sus amigos. Yo no tengo amigos; ¿por eso es mi carne tan desnuda? Sí, es como la naturaleza sin los hombres.

La justice est une affaire d'hommes

Every anti-communist is a dog.

We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the clothes their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default.

The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Demokratische Politik kann sich nicht in Moraldebatten erschöpfen, lebensfähig ist sie immer nur als Projekt.

There are millions of homeless children in the world—which proved again that kids were a low-value commodity, didn't it? I mean, there are very few homeless Bentleys in the world.

I think I have a right to know my husband killed somebody," Rita said. "And he's cheating on me?" she added, as if killing might be overlooked, but cheating was something truly despicable. It was not quite the proper order of our society's priorities as I had come to understand them, but this was not the time to debate contemporary ethical concepts.

I AM NOT REALLY PARANOID. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT I AM surrounded by mysterious enemies who seek to trap me, torture me, kill me. Of course, I know very well that if I allow my disguise to slip and reveal me for what I am, then this entire society will join together in calling for my slow and painful death, but this is not paranoia—this is a calm, clearheaded view of consensus reality, and I am not frightened by it. I simply try to be careful so it doesn't happen.