Quotes About Society

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.

When freedom from want and freedom from fear are achieved, man's remains will be in rigor mortis.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective.

Some innovations just don't attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in 2002) the potentialities of broadband (G3) technology are being taken up rather slowly because few people want to surf the Internet or watch movies from their mobile phones.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Anthony, do you want a police force or a campaign ad?

This book, by contrast, proceeds from an ancient Christian view that the foundation of every land is silence (Ws 18:14), where God simply and perpetually gives Himself, This Self-gift is manifested in the creation, in the people of God and their inspired (if stumbling) pursuit of a just society, and most fully, in the Christian view of things, in Jesus Christ.

the more physical touching there is among people, the healthier the country is

If most of the time they do and feel and think and watch and eat and drink precisely what everyone else does, are Americans really free? There

They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught that parents, wives, and the world should be abandoned and that one should withdraw into a monastery. But what is to become of human society or finally of all life? Surely that was not sanctity or worship of God, as they have called it; it was satanic madness.

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

La civilisation, telle que je l'entends, repose sur le café et les journaux, et leur parfum.

Reclam?: civilizaÈ›ie înseamn? domesticirea È™i creÈ™terea fricii.

Via?a este un animal care se hr?ne?te cu cecuri ?i cu c?r?i de credit.

The fact that commercial culture always panders to the lowest common denominator of awareness and taste should not stop us in our personal revolution to become real human beings.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.