Quotes About Society

An investment in your country's education pays the best interest.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing.""You mean you went to an expensive school?

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Boys don't cry—or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.