Quotes About Society

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

Centralized economic systems also erode the democratic base of politics. In a democracy, the economic agenda is the political agenda.

I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

Money is only a human invention.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

I hope my girls don't grow up to be models," Maria Fabiola says. But there is something in her voice that implies that this will be difficult to fight-their beauty will pull them inexorably toward modelhood.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.

It is quite impossible to understand,' I commented afterwards, 'how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (and if we are English, even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men would fill us with a sickness and repulsion greater than we could endure.

You can sleepwalk through life and ignore the greater problems around you, as you steep in your own petty personal issues and pass your time casually existing. We, on the other hand, have to prove to ourselves, and to others around us, that we will actively make the effort to shape our society and take responsibility for it, always. And only once we do this, are we citizens. In short—everyone has basic rights, but everyone earns their privileges.

History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society.

Hong Kong flu The 1968 Hong Kong flu killed about the same proportion of the US population as the virus which appeared in 2020. The mortality rate was almost identical at 0.1%. There were no restrictions on movement. Hospital departments were not shut. The economy was not devastated.

Advantageous changes to society happen only through the determined work of unreasonable men. Great things happen only when enough

Koire (Rosa) 'Agenda 21 is about destroying independence, culture, society, economy and human lives.

society in which anyone over the age of 40 is regarded as worthless and disposable.