Quotes About Society

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Todas las artes han producido maravillas. El arte de gobernar sólo ha producido monstruos

Llega uno a cualquier parte y no tiene más que escoger la casa que le cuadre y ésa agarra sin pedirle licencia a naiden. Entonces ¿pa quién jue la revolución? ¿Pa los catrines? Si ahora nosotros vamos a ser los meros catrines.

Le dijo a Nariño que Colombia era un campo militar[6] y no una sociedad funcional. Mientras peleaba en solitario contra los abusos del gobierno, había visto cuan sobornables y corruptos podían ser los políticos y cuan incapaz había sido de controlarlos.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.

Would that I were a man,'" I said, quoting Sarpalyce's legend. "Except that I do not wish I were a man. I only wish that being a woman did not limit me so.

All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed

The hunt for spouses is an activity on a par with fox-hunting or hawking, though the weapons and dramatis personae differ. Just as grizzled old men know the habits of hares and quail, so do elegant society gossips know every titbit about the year's eligible men and women.

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

Man, as a purely natural creature, fairly educated, but wholly unspiritualized, is a mental composition of: Hunger, Curiosity, Self-Esteem, Avarice, Cowardice, Lust, Cruelty, Personal Ambition; and on these vile qualities alone our 'society' hangs together; the virtues have no place anywhere, and do not count at all, save as conveniently pious metaphors.

Humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.

The U.S. penal system has a strong tendency to "level down". The much-heralded "liberal" features of American political culture ironically have helped to render the U.S. penal system harsher, more degrading, and less forgiving as it extends a brute egalitarianism across the board.

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

The little open door of each individual's inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.

from Indo-China— put in some wild yeast from the air, ferment it and voilà! you've now got Vodka for the Volga, beer for the Brits, Bourbon for Balboa's kids, Joy-juice for the Kickapoos. Pour this into an Inner City and create your Designated Criminal Class purely to blame for everything, or rub it on the Reservations and

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

But communes are a good idea. People criticize communes because they don't last, but why in hell, will you tell me, should they last? Why does an order have to become a permanent order? Maybe we should live one way for some years, then try another.

Men: they are what they are and women have to accept that and try to shift around them. Especially men with power. Money. The upper hand. The raised hand. Momma`s philosophy. Here`s to you, Momma. She raised the empty cup. What`s the use of fighting them. What`s the use. To struggle, to live in anger takes everything out of you, drains you, makes people hate you and what`s the use? You get nothing you want, all you get is tired.