Quotes About Society

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

En employant des moyens extrêmes, il est effectivement possible de détruire le contrat social jusqu'à la base, et d'obtenir de la part des hommes des réactions purement animales.

Cette attitude non héroïque a cependant un inconvénient : c'est qu'elle se prête mal aux récits ou en tous les cas aux récits de facture classique ; or la fonction narrative est indispensable dans toute société.

The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

Civilization is a horizon which we can approach, while barbarity is a background from which we seek to move away; neither condition can be entirely identified with particular beings. It consists of acts and attitudes that are barbarian or civilized, not individuals or peoples.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.

I have to accept the reality of present-day capitalist society however exploitative or inhumane it may seem to be. Not because it is the best system that can ever be, or because its exploitation and inhumanity are unreal, but for pure and simple reasons of survival. The acceptance has only a functional value. Nothing more and nothing less. If I do not accept social reality as it is imposed on me, I will "end up in the loony-bin singing merry melodies and loony tunes.

I don't have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.

The society is interested only in fitting every individual into its framework and maintaining its continuity.

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

Yoksul halk?n?n ya?ama sava??na gözlerini kapay?p cami minberinden cennet öyküleri say?klayanlar m? uygarl?k temsilcisi olacaklar?

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond theory of world risk society: it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.

spiritual impotence of the society had left Muslims hungry for guidance and direction.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

Do you play tennis? Anarchists play a lot of tennis. And Counts do too. Counts and anarchists are the kind of people who, right now, play tennis most.

How good I would feel if I could be something that called itself neither man nor woman.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover

In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Women are the foundation of a society, but remember who laid them!

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty