Quotes About Society

As much as he loved to fly, in the prewar years he regarded his RAF aircraft more as a tool for cracking open English high society than as a weapon for defeating Britain's enemies.

Yet here the pilots were in England, fêted and pampered by the upper echelons of society, glamorized in movies and the press, enjoying themselves in spite of any guilt they may have felt. And here were their hosts and hostesses, with their very British insouciance, acting as if there would always be an England. In one context, this attitude was infuriating; in another, it was one of Britain's greatest strengths.

women accounted for some twenty percent of its agents over the five years of its existence. Like their male counterparts, they represented all classes of society, from maids and laundresses to Paris socialites.

Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment in which the norms of society had broke down.

It seems to me those are just the ones who have to do without, because, in the final analysis, they can. And men basically want women who can't live without them.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

To deny James an education was attacking principles of liberty and equality upon the only ground which it ought to be supported and equality of rights. If James could not go to school, how could he hope to equip himself to earn a living?

She blamed moral vices that weakened the whole society and worried that Americans were heading in the same direction.... Thought that so much land was owned by so few people and that so many ordinary people could never hope to own their land seemed to her the most damning characteristic of the Old World. ... I do not regret that I made this excursion since it has only more attached me to America.

Trading God's truth for what the world said was a better plan.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose; wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Lilliputian mole-hill.

Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

You know, we've got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Without justice, a society cannot be Islamic regardless of its label. It i that simple

Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynamic in thought.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Computers and the World of the Future,

The real significance of computing was to be found not in this gadget or that gadget, but in how the technology was woven into the fabric of human life—how computers could change the way people thought, the way they created, the way they communicated, the way they worked together, the way they organized themselves, even the way they apportioned power and responsibility.

generally treating free-market capitalism as a kind of state religion.

Depressed? Of course we're all depressed. We've been so quickly, violently, and irreconcilably plucked from nature, from physical labor, from kinship and village mentality, from every natural and primordial antidepressant. The further society "progresses," the grander the scale of imbalance. Just as fluoride is put in water to prevent dental caries, we'll soon find government mandating Prozac to prevent mental caries.

No one with feeds things about it," she said. "When you have the feed all your life, you're brought up to not think about things. Like them never telling you that it's a republic and not a democracy. It's something that makes me angry, what people don't know about these days. Because of the feed, we're raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant, self-centered idiots.

Mangiare bene o male dipende dalla cultura. Mangiare o non mangiare dipende dal denaro.

migration undermines cooperation.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women is not to pay a blind bit of notice.