Quotes About Society

It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.