Quotes About Society

En manos de los políticos, todo proyecto acaba en una antigua forma de infelicidad, ya no merecen nuestra entrega ni nuestra obligación.

La sociedad civil solidaria y organizada que tanto se jactó de su emergencia con los sismos es la misma que luego bajó las manos ante el fraude electoral de 1988, la misma que creyó y avaló la construcción de la efímera quimera salinista, la misma que en nuestros días ejerce sus labores democráticos como si se tratara de imperativos neuróticos. ¿Negamos los sismos porque los vinculamos con esta penosa actualidad social y política?

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men.

We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms.

It is time for us to open our eyes. It is time for us to awaken to new possibilities and make them real. It is time for us to awaken our dormant spirituality-first as individuals, then as whole nations, and finally as the whole of humanity-and raise up our collective consciousness. -Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

I remember it was frowned upon. Considered frivolous, or dangerous, or unbecoming—one of those terms that the moribund use to keep the adventurous in tow.

The zoos are full and the prisons overflowing. My, my. How the world so dearly loves a cage." She

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.

the ideal of a self-organizing society based on voluntary cooperation rather than upon coercion is irrepressible.

The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

The Masons have done little in the centuries since to rid themselves of their perceived reputation as a festering cauldron of dark intrigues and the mystical arts.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other.

They say 3 million people are looking for a job. False: all they really need is money.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it.

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.

The cultures and arts of times are reflections of the people whom lived during those times.

The Philosophical Reascension calls for the reconstruction of the paradigm of thought and the entire presence of philosophy in society as well as in our daily lives.

We are quite primitive still, are we not?

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

J'ai fait un pacte avec la prostitution afin de semer le désordre dans les familles.

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.