Quotes About Society

What is a city? What should it be? Why do we live in groups? What do we want from cities? And who decides?

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society: or fear of oneself. He was not afraid of himself. But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly-insane beast.

Too much anthropos makes the world a dull hole.

injustice is not caused by an abstraction called "society," as we on the left had maintained. Nor was injustice caused by oppressive races and genders, or solely by our political enemies. Injustice is the result of human selfishness, deceitfulness, malice, envy, greed, and lust. Injustice is the inevitable consequence of our free will as human beings. "Society" is not the cause of injustice. Society is merely a reflection of who we are.

During the Sixties, we also became a culture of splinter-groups, of people who identified ourselves according to ethnicity, gender, special interests—a galaxy of minorities, united only by a sensibility that now regarded society at large with suspicion.

As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: "white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose," but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the "transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society." In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.

In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors.

Criticism of religion is the very measure of the guarantee of free speech — the literal sacred institution of society.102

Vanda (as Dunayev): In our society, a woman's only power is through men. Her character is her lack of character. She's a blank, to be filled in my creatures who at heart despise her. I want to see what Woman will be when she ceases to be man's slave. When she has the same rights as he, when she's his equal in education and his partner in work. When she becomes herself. An individual.

Politics and religion have always worked in tandem as the primary forces that control humanity. Politics compels compliance by authority, while religion draws compliance by attraction. When these two combine forces, their power becomes virtually absolute.

Liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.

People who disregard the Bible may someday get what they want—a society where the Bible is no longer read or proclaimed, and where they can freely sin without Scripture confronting their conscience. But they may get more than they bargained for—a society without the moral compass of Scripture will self-destruct from moral decay and decadence.

People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore.

soon as a culture has reached a certain level, probably measured largely by its literacy, cryptography appears spontaneously—as

It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands of the state.

We, the parents of this generation, along with the degrading entertainment media, the biased news media, the lying politicians, the brainwashing government school system, and the rest of society's once-great institutions whose degradation we have tolerated, are responsible.

while a deluded president can be replaced at the next election, one cannot replace a deluded population so easily.

now. The last free generation of kids had let their fears take away their kids' freedom. As

Yet even for some, the stagnation looms over life. It breeds political dysfunction, and it helps explain why so many Americans aren't swayed by facts. When you have been struggling for decades, you tend to lose faith in society's institutions and their sober-minded experts.

I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something? Call me an old-fashioned Naomi bitch, but I'm holding out for true love. Even if it's an unattainable fantasy

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.