Quotes About Society

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Society is built upon trust.

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

Trust yourself, because society always corrupt our confidence.

Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.