Quotes About Society

As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.

Reality, with all its attendant complexities--i.e., other people--was inescapable...

Spurred on by those in public life, the ordinary bigots seemed to find a voice.

Young women are restrained by so many tethers, it is not surprising that occasionally they get themselves tangled.

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.

Points to Ponder • 75 percent of the world is extroverted. • Being introverted affects all areas of your life. • Nothing is wrong with you. • Introverts feel drained and overstimulated. • Being introverted is something to be celebrated.

The sound of the in-crowd was no longer folk or jazz but the bouncing rhythms of rock and roll

The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.

If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits are local to the areas that we live in: the roads we drive on, the stores we shop at, and the services we use.

The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion over time... In general, as the value of land increases, the return on capital tends to decrease comparatively, which discourages business owners from investing in capital goods and private enterprise... Resources flow away from endeavours that can create jobs, produce wealth, and enliven society, and instead flow into land speculation.

We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is privatized for personal gain, we also come to realize just how corrupt most societies actually are. Many social problems exist as a result of how our system misallocates wealth, not as a result of an unalterable human condition.

Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment of goods and services when proportionally more income is used to pay monopolized rent for land. Essentially, whenever property owners collect rent from rising land values, fewer financial resources are left over for wages and capital investments, and this dynamic can effectively put society on the fast track toward social decline and wealth inequality.

Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes -- homosexuality, sexual disease, and death -- about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises

Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about.

In an unjust society a man may violate laws for valid social or economic reasons. In a just society there are no valid reasons except mental illness.

These enemies of society are to be driven out of New York regardless of their constitutional rights.' The