Quotes About Society

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette.

Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.

This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.

The key to solving problems such as violence, discrimination, inequality, human rights violations, and environmental destruction is to be found not in systems or technology but in recovering empathy.

No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro... —Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)

But as urban life accelerated and expanded, it disrupted the old sense of order. This new way of living generated unprecedented social and political conflict and an increase in violence and aggression.

A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?

In peaceful times in a peaceful country a man grows up, goes to school, marries, works, suffers illnesses, grows old. He may go through the whole of life without understanding what freedom is. No doubt he always feels free to the extent to which it is proper for a respectable citizen with average powers of imagination to be free.

Each society, as I've written elsewhere, betrays its own characteristic "time bias"—the degree to which it places emphasis on past, present, or future. One lives in the past. Another may be obsessed with the future.

children in an industrial society are "time trained"—they learn to read the clock, and they learn to distinguish even quite small slices of time, as when their parents tell them, "You've only got three more minutes till bedtime!" These sharply honed temporal skills are often absent in slower-moving agrarian societies that require less precision in daily scheduling than our time-obsessed society.

Needham comments that, according to a philosophic conception dominant in China, the cosmos is in spontaneous harmony and the regularity of phenomena is not due to any external authority. On the contrary, this harmony in nature, society, and the heavens originates from the equilibrium among these processes. Stable and interdependent, they resonate with each other in a kind of nonconcerted harmony.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

sneer about it with my designer shoes and Ivy League pedigree.

La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique, l'economique et le socioculturel.

We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation

Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.

According to the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), 54 per cent of Pakistanis face 'multi-dimentional deprivation'. meaning they lack access to proper education and health facilities and a decent standard of living. Almost two-thirds of the country lives on less than US$2 a day and about 40 per cent of Pakistani children suffer from chronic malnutrition. How can Pakistan be called an Islamic society?

Onze tijd is niet gunstig voor het behoud van het individu.

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.