Quotes About Society

the Founders were concerned that the will of the people could easily become the preferences of the mob.

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

The Duke of Shê asked about government. The Master said, When the near approve and the distant approach.

Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.

A golden bribe can change hands at voting, but the true value in Rome is influence and favor.

Toffs?" Jack kept his eyes averted from his

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

That ain't right," Addy said. "It ain't, but it's the way things is," Sarah said.

For some girls, our bodies are not immortal so much as expendable, we have punished them or wearied from dragging them around for so long and so we go wearing the brilliant plumage of the possibly freed by death.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.

As Gandhi put it, "Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion really means.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

James Connolly, 1916: 'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody is under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.' Thomas More (1474–1535), student at Lincoln's Inn from 1496–1500

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

Our minds, society and neurosexism create difference. Together, they wire gender. But the wiring is soft, not hard. It is flexible, malleable and changeable. And, if we only believe this, it will continue to unravel.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Soy conservador en los problemas económicos, pero liberal cuando tratamos problemas humanos».

L'historiador Philippe Ariès ho formula de la següent manera: "El sentiment de família, el sentiment de classe i tal vegada el de raça apareixen com les manifestacions de la pròpia intolerància davant la diversitat i del propi patiment per la uniformitat".

We live in a society of ants, where working and reproducing represent the ultimate objective of the human experience. Work is the opiate of the people; will children be their consolation? A society where life consists of earning a living and raising your kids is a society with no future, since it has no dreams. Having a child is the best possible way to avoid asking what the meaning of life is, as everything revolves around that child, who is a marvellous substitute for the existential quest.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.