Quotes About Society

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.

We know that something went wrong in the country after World War II, for most of our serious pollution problems either began in the postwar years or have greatly worsened since then. —BARRY COMMONER

Engels suggested that "real human freedom" can be achieved only in a society that exists "in harmony with the laws of nature.

The city] somehow managed to wear its decadence with a certain amount of grace; the anomaly of high culture in the midst of squalor is a kind of dandyism.

It's a unique indictment of the human condition -- we don't just conquer our fears, we market them.

Vida moderna

Luego está la ración. España es el único sitio del universo, si no me equivoco, donde la gente come antes de irse a casa a comer. Me parece genial.

Sexual taboos are man's invention. Sexual repression and misogyny are the result of a paternalistic society with a fundamental disconnect from its own basic nature. From angry, gynophobic mullahs hell-bent on covering women up to their eyeballs, to the denizens of Vatican City, who look and dress like a bunch of drag queens, some truly perverted individuals have been allowed to make the sex rules for everyone else. Marriage

The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.' Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

The Beijing social commentator Li Fan once wrote a monograph on Christianity in China declaring that China's unregistered churches were the only real example of civil society—in other words, organizations independent of government control that tried to change or improve society.

Charismatic rule has long been neglected and ridiculed, but apparently it has deep roots and becomes a powerful stimulus once the proper psychological and social conditions are set. The Leader's charismatic power is not a mere phantasm – none can doubt that millions believe in it.' Franz Neumann, 1942

Karl Marx's dictum that 'men do make their own history, but . . . under given and imposed conditions'.

Governmental disorder and 'cumulative radicalization' were two sides of the same coin.

That the notion of 'national community' gained its definition by those it excluded from it...

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.