Quotes About Society

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

DE ALGUNAS LEYES QUE LOS INCAS TUVIERON EN SU GOBIERNO Nunca tuvieron pena pecuniaria ni confiscación de bienes, porque decían que castigar en la hacienda y dejar vivos los delincuentes no era desear quitar los malos de la república, sino la hacienda a los malhechores, y dejarlos con más libertad para que hiciesen mayores males.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

Given my swimmingly fetching cultural milieu, getting used to this bleeding business took quite a while. In the meantime, I fervently asked people why the hell this happened to us girls. Various sources consistently informed me that it was (big sigh) "just part of being a woman" (big sigh), or the good ol' standby curse we inherited from Eve.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.

Most Whores are completely unaware of how important they are to society, and subsequently do not have the opportunity to learn how to be all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving and all-receiving incarnations of the Goddess.

Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

And I don't believe in this materialism, in this consumer society, in this capitalism, in this outrageous horror that happens / takes place here…. I really do believe in something, and I call it "a day will come." And one day it will come. Well, probably it won't come, since they've always destroyed it for us…. It won't come, and I believe in it anyway. Because if I can't believe in it anymore then I can't write anymore either.

they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst

Quiero confesarme y no sé qué decir. Mi corazón está vacío. El vacío es como un espejo puesto delante de mi rostro. Me veo a mí mismo, y al contemplarlo siento un profundo desprecio de mi ser. (Pausa) por mi indiferencia hacia los hombres y las cosas me he alejado de la sociedad en que viví. Ahora habito un mundo de fantasmas, prisionero de fantasías sin sueños.

Für mich hat jeder Mensch das Recht, sich zu verändern, und wenn jemand dabei ein wertvolles Mitglied einer Gesellschaft wird, dann soll er auch die damit verbundenen Chancen bekommen, sofern er sich klar von Vergehen distanziert und dafür gezahlt oder gebüßt hat. Ich habe jetzt acht harte Jahre hinter mir, mit allem, was man sich vorstellen kann, mit Bombendrohungen und Gerichtsverhandlungen, und denke schon, dass ich inzwischen einen Beitrag für diese Gesellschaft leiste.

I seem to recall, but can't remember where, a science fiction story of social-wide amnesia having to do with hypnotic commands to FORGET, FORGET what you have seen, and ATTACK AND DESTROY those who insist they have seen it. This

Thundering echoes of it persist in today's wage-slavery concepts

Now, I happen to be an Ayn Rand enthusiast, the philosopher-author whose caustic but penetrating eye espied some factors in society normally overlooked by a lot of people. In her philosophical tracts and in her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.

This can be explained in part by understanding and accepting the historical fact that almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other under-classes whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords. Such was certainly the case, for example, in ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman, Chinese, and most old Nordic cultures, etc.

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more creditbility if they had their origins in the soul & spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. -Marc Chagall

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Although the press enjoys much more freedom of speech these days, and the internet provides the public with access to the world at large, domestic coverage of the government and its leaders is strictly censored. "Dissident voices" are swiftly silenced, while overseas anti-government websites are firewalled. All this is proof that despite a liberal attitude towards the economy, the government remains nervous at the thought of losing its firm grip on society.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Irrespective of where they lived, most white Americans before the civil rights era were indifferent to Jim Crow. Yet only in, and surrounding, the former Confederacy did the formal political system utilize race to exclude adults from citizenship and full access to civil society. Private terror combined with public law and enforcement to make this political system authentically totalitarian. Competitive party politics did not exist. Electoral contests were enacted inside the one dominant party.