Quotes About Society

The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants that fought for control over the mind were the id and the superago, the first a servant of a genes, the second a lackey of society - both representing the "Other".

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

This book is a call for reconciliation in society that is radical, that goes to the roots.

God lurks in the shadows of the palaces of power and privilege, waiting for activists to dismantle the very structures that lock society into the evil of institutionalized injustice and separation.

The authenticity of any new society is built on the foundation of the ethics of that revolution.

Modern man is one who drives a mortgaged car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas!

Was it a thing, Flora wondered, that just happened to charismatic men—or maybe all men—how the world around them seemed to bend to their wants and needs?

Could be he was a demon. Low-level. Many politicians were.

the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.

poetry has always been for me a participation in the humanly modulated time of my contemporaries.

Vaterland nennt sich der Staat immer dann, wenn er sich anschickt, auf Menschenmord auszugehen. / A state always calls itself fatherland when it is about to commit murder.

How beastly the bourgeois isespecially the male of the species.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Only about 15 percent of white Americans belonged to any church during the colonial period.

?airler f?rsatlar üzerine kurulu hayatla kumar oynamal? - ama art?k sistem pezevenkli?inden ba?ka bir ?ey yapm?yorlar -

in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important thing was that they should be good. But I really think that people were just as happy as they are now, only they never thought about whether they were or not.