Quotes About Society

He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence... and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

His senseless disdain was beyond me. I have met only a few men like him in my life, and they rattle my soul. They are frightening, and you can never anticipate the turn of their minds or the extent of their greed. They are in fact criminals uncaught by society.

Porque la historia es la memoria colectiva de la humanidad, es el análisis del desarrollo de los hombres en sociedad; y eso no puede reducirse a la acción de un solo hombre, por influyente que haya sido

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Raum ist der Ausdruck der Gesellschaft.

Manuel Castells

only 3 per cent believed that governments worked to improve their lives.

It does, however, form part of a wider and more profound movement of mass rebellion against the established order.

things changed when the debate broadened out to include the general public at large, and not just the political classes.

Els monopolis ideològics sempre parlen de llibertat

Yo bien conozco esta sociedad mexicana que se traga bueyes y se escandaliza con un mosquito

A xente boa veu ao mundo para foderse, a mala anda por aí pisando forte. (p. 166)

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

The stereotype of the bourgeois couple to which the motif of the ages of life corresponds becomes a well-oiled machine: each generation pushes the next one toward the exit.

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Sabemos bien que en cualquier sociedad el orden social y cultural gobierna la relación con la naturaleza, que nombrar es clasificar, que una soledad absoluta es impensable, que toda identidad se define en relación con una alteridad, y que lo mismo y lo otro están estrechamente ligados, asociados en el tiempo y en el espacio.