Quotes About Society

the other and the past coexisted there from the beginning),

The relationship to age is an expression of social inequality.

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Chiar aÅŸa ce? Ai mai luat autobuzul sau metroul, ai mai mers pe str?zi? Oamenii petrec mai mult timp cu ochii în telefoanele lor decât uitându-se la ce se întâmpl? în jur. În zilele noastre, singurul mijloc de a atrage atenÅ£ia este s? zâmbeÅŸti pe un ecran de smartphone, nu-i vina mea, dar aÅŸa stau lucrurile.

Bineintales, fiindca voi, atunci cand va plimbati cu coaiele in vant, sunteti niste seducatori plini de succes, pe cand, daca noi ne aratam un pic dintr-un sân, suntem curve. Stii, pentru ca un barbat sa se culce cu o femeie, trebuie sa existe femeia.

Rory breaks violence into two main categories, social and asocial.

what's down deep remains amazingly similar. It's not whom you hate, but rather that the system is designed for you to hate someone.

Such figures suggest that the property-owning classes had indeed been hit hard by repeated barbarian incursions.

society had collapsed.

The Emergence of Kings and Kingdoms

But in Britain, as we've seen, civic life had collapsed completely in the early fifth century

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

their ealdormen and their thegns, who in turn called upon the services of their own followings of well-equipped warriors.

life in Britain before the arrival of the Romans was not necessarily any nicer,

If we had to sum this new society up in a single word, we might describe it as feudal— but only if we were prepared for an outbreak of fainting fits among medieval historians. The

the extreme wealth of the elite depended on the aggressive exploitation of the majority of the population, who are for the most part absent from the archaeological and written records.

everybody living in the empire was considered a Roman citizen,

If we had to sum this new society up in a single word, we might describe it as feudal— but only if we were prepared for an outbreak of fainting fits among medieval historians.

what was the point of paying taxes, or obeying a law that forbade civilians from carrying weapons?

Nevertheless, for all Cnut's determination to portray himself as a traditional Old English king, his reign had altered English society dramatically.

Americans have always wallowed in bad taste and show no signs of reversing this trend.

It is a fact of modern life that day care and nanny care have become more common.

D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.