Quotes About Society

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.

Everyone wants to be accepted by a world that is unacceptable

Let all rich people should also wear virus protection mask round the clock , why only poor and lower middle class.

Vote for Nobody because Nobody Cares,

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Self-maintenance originates society, while excessive self-gratification destroys civilization.

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

There is often a great difference between what we want and what we think we want, and this is complicated still further by the fact that we are often greatly influenced by what others want for us

I was the victim of both social orders: of Apollo's waxing patriarchy, & of Clytemnestra's last spasms of outraged matriarchy. My father Priam probably would have said: that I had asked for it. That no society could be expected to tolerate an individual who insisted on telling the truth.

Democracy requires that alternative visions of society be placed before the people, from which they can choose. But if all political parties have the same policies, namely those approved by capital, then the choice of the people becomes meaningless.

I have found more fist bumps and handshakes and high fives until someone shouts, wassup my nigga, because drunk white kids think imitating black people is hilarious.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

what else are parallel structures than an area where a different life can be lived, a life that is in harmony with its own aims and which in turn structures itself in harmony with those aims? . . .What else are those initial attempts at social self-organization than the efforts of a certain part of society…to rid itself of the self-sustaining aspects of totalitarianism and, thus, to extricate itself radically from its involvement in the…totalitarian system?

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in the post-totalitarian societies.

True enough, order prevails.... What prevails is order without life. True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

En la historia humana, los vestidos, herramientas, armas y tradiciones, toman el lugar de las pieles, garras, colmillos e instintos, para la búsqueda de alimento y abrigo. Las costumbres y prohibiciones, condensando siglos de experiencia acumulada y transmitida por la tradición social, ocupan el lugar de los instintos heredados, facilitando la supervivencia de nuestra especie.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.