Quotes About Society

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (????-?????????). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)

Either history is really governed by laws, and in that case a truly human-activity is impossible, except perhaps in a technical sense; or human beings really make their own history, and then the task of theory will not be directed to discovering 'laws', but to the elucidation of the conditions with in which human activity unfolds.

Toda sociedad es un sistema de interpretación del mundo (...) Su propia identidad no es otra cosa que ese "sistema de interpretación", ese mundo que ella crea. Y esa es la razón por la cual la sociedad percibe como un peligro mortal todo ataque contra ese sistema de interpretación; lo persigue como un ataque contra su identidad, contra sí misma

human society," as C. S. Lewis puts it, "inside which minimum decency passes for heroic virtue and utter corruption for pardonable imperfection.

Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)

La città non è una giungla d'asfalto, come è stato detto; è uno zoo umano».

It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

If this were an episode of Bridgerton,he'd be the "rake

You can't tell young people what you think of their behaviour if you haven't known them since they were toddlers, and even then you keep a close eye on your tongue. Knives and guns are commonplace, and there are even local stories of people being shot for asking the young not to smoke in a public space. So

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

Spoken of' community (more exactly: a community speaking of itself) is a contradiction in terms.

I took a sip of my coffee, sat the folder on the counter, and began reading the newspaper. "In the cold, gray dawn of September the twenty-eighth . . ." Dickens. ". . . The slippery bank where the life of Cody Pritchard came to an ignominious end . . ." Faulkner. "Questioning society with the simple query, why?" Steinbeck. "Dead." Hemingway. Ernie

In the cold, gray dawn of September the twenty-eighth . . ." Dickens. ". . . The slippery bank where the life of Cody Pritchard came to an ignominious end . . ." Faulkner. "Questioning society with the simple query, why?" Steinbeck. "Dead." Hemingway.

Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.

There's a tendency in our society to romanticize the exploits of outlaws and gangsters, an insistence that they're Robin Hood–type characters, that they have more in common with us than the people whom we hire to protect us and enforce our laws. I don't buy that. I think that when you pick up a gun and use it to take things away from people, it doesn't matter how clever or charming you are—you're just a thief, plain and simple.

Capital punishment is an extreme sanction that would perhaps have been suitable for this most extreme of crimes, but we make mistakes, and taking another life due to human error is the worst we can do in a society based on law. And even if we get it right, killing the killer is not going to bring back the victims.

Napoleon had indeed said, "Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

The poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, said of women, "They ought to mind home, and be well fed and clothed, but not mixed in society. Well educated, too, in religion, but to read neither poetry nor politics—nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music, drawing, dancing, also a little gardening and ploughing now and then.

Economy: As an adjective, cheap; As a noun, that which compels us to render ourselves as such.

What kind of place required a man to work all day without being allowed to eat or drink? There had to be rules, didn't there? This was America, after all.

Just trying to blend in. That's the way of the world." "Well, that's the way of America, at least," my mom said.

El matrimonio es una institución absurda. Una se ve vendida a los quince años y presta un juramento que no entiende y del que luego se arrepiente a lo largo de treinta años o más, pero que ya no se puede romper. Sissi Emperatriz de Austria