Quotes About Society

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

Rely on the internet for how you look at the world, though, and you'll see the worst side of people represented far too much.

And almost never young men of any race, even though they can and do go missing too.

those people live in a dystopian fantasy where they're the heroes in a world full of threats.

Women are always, somehow, to blame for the acts of men; that's more true now than it ever has been.

natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

I've never understood why looking hot has to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to anticipation, to courtship, to true love? Can't a person look hot and not have it mean something?

A woman's body, said the world, was a prison in which her mind must wither.

A woman may in some circumstances acquire what she desires without the protection of a man." She regarded Ester. "If you find a way to live as you wish, unnatural though it might be, you'll carry on your shoulders the weight of a thousand wives' wishes. Though aloud all may curse you as a very devil.

The contemporary belief that the family meal is a place where children learn to become members of a moral society owes much to the Dutch.

It's good to be reminded that cities and states, courts and armies, writing and figuring, temples and cathedrals, all depended on those who stood to pound and knelt to grind.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

La actividad filosófica no es neutral. Desde la República de Platón hasta la íntima relación entre brahmino y ksatriya en las Upanisad la filosofía se encuentra íntimamente ligada con la política. No hace falta esperar a Marx para establecer esta conexión. Toda la historia de la filosofía es una confirmación de ello.

It is also essential that good men and women not be educated and propagandized into believing that real evil is a myth and that all malevolent behavior is merely the result of a broken family's or a failed society's shortcomings, amenable to cure by counseling and by the application of new economic theory.

Greater self-awareness," he'd told Rocky on a night when sleep wouldn't come, "doesn't make a species any happier, pal. If it did, we'd have fewer psychiatrists and barrooms...

Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.

But insanity is everywhere these days, and celebrated. Insanity is rapidly becoming the new normal.

When feverish politics and demented ideology entwine, those who are not well anchored to the beliefs that allow a civil society can be swept away, becoming part of the storm of madness that lays waste to everything.

After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. To

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirruping.