Quotes About Society

19 th century literature is dead in this country

The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.

Depression is taking a staggering toll on the modern world. Around 10 percent of the population can expect to become clinically depressed over the coming year. And things are likely to become worse. The World health Organization1 estimates that depression will impose the second-biggest health burden globally by 2020. Think about that for a moment. Depression will impose a bigger burden than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer on both individuals and society in less than a decade.

Depression may be exacting a staggering toll, but its cousin—chronic anxiety—is becoming disturbingly common too, with average levels of anxiety in children and young people now at a point that would have been judged to be "clinical" in the 1950s.4 It's not a great stretch of the imagination to assume that in a few decades unhappiness, depression and anxiety will have become the normal human condition, rather than happiness and contentment.

strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

Nadie protege la moral de manera más estricta que el propio infractor furtivo, pues éste tiene claro que la humanidad naufragaría si todos los seres humanos tuviesen la posibilidad de vivir como él.

she would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport

When it comes to childhood, therefore, it was reasonable to suggest that a prolonged period before independence was required once humans began to perform difficult tasks, like hunting or making pottery and baskets. Children could spend their time practicing these skills, which would better prepare them for success as adults in a hunter-gatherer society. In effect, this idea would mean that children are schooling themselves, and were doing so long before formal education was invented.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

You are very attractive, but the coat you're wearing makes me think you are either a very rich woman or a very rich man's mistress.

every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.

I hate when a man feels I'm obligated to disclose my marital status to somebody I don't even know. Even this bullshit about status itself as if married and spinster are the only two choices for defining myself. Or because I'm a woman I'm supposed to have a status at all.

Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.

This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning

Police only have to see that me don't have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing 'round decent people, and give me two choices.

knowledge of some sort of sick white science

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.†