Quotes About Society

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

You are still you. The U.S. is still the U.S., held together by credit cards and Indian names

But now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless anymore, everybody wants their fun.

They had been drinking. In the society of Tarbox there was no invitation more flattering than to share, like this, another couple's intimacy, to partake in their humorous déshabille, their open quarrels and implicit griefs.

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

Like many youngsters they formed their own secret societies. The 'Potato Society

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.

literacy is as vital as food, security, limiting population growth, and control of the environment. Education, after all, is the one issue that affects every other one. I think of it in the same way as dropping a pebble into a pond and getting a ripple effect. Educated people make more money and are more likely to escape poverty. Educated parents raise healthier children. ...The list goes on, just as ripples in a body of water emanate outward.

In the 1790s, more than a century before the invention of modern dating culture, an underground sexual economy flourished on a scale almost unimaginable today. Men, whether they were married or not, enjoyed wide sexual latitude: they could often pursue an active sexual double life without incident. Women, on the other hand, faced a stark contrast between sexual respectability and social ruin.

men paid one group of women to provide the services that their respectable counterparts would not.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Congressman Ryan is a strong advocate for greater mindfulness in health care as well as in other important areas such as education, the military, and criminal justice. In his book, he makes a very strong case for why we need greater mindfulness in these and other areas of our society.

Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take these capacities for granted and don't think to develop them systematically in the service of self-understanding and wisdom. Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

How will that eventually be a contribution to humanity? That is truly our common goal. Can we contribute something to education through cultivating emotional balance? As His Holiness often says, we cannot have outer peace without inner peace. We cannot have an outer disarmament without inner disarmament. If we want to have a harmonious society, it has to begin with and within each of us.

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

The problem in todays world is that people lack trust in goodness.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.