Quotes About Society

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

Human evolution has ceased because in the modern world, no one is really isolated from the rest of humanity.

Neolithicization is the evolutionary cessation from a physiological perspective.

Our perception of reality is cultural & changing cultural views change reality.

There is equality before God and there is equality here on earth. There is natural equality and there is the kind of equality that human society creates.

A closer examination of the facts would have shown that hordes of perfectly free men and women enjoying equal authority, status and access to resources of every kind, including each other's sexuality, have never existed and probably could not have existed. To paraphrase Hobbes, perfect equality, like its concomitant perfect liberty, can only exist when each individual lives alone in a desert, where it is meaningless.

Keith Thomas' Magic and the Decline of Religion (1971).

The fact that the Nazis constructed "polarized identities for males and females" and did not accept the feminist dogma about men and women being similar in every respect was said to be one of their worst misdeeds.

Whenever fewer women than men study a subject, then this fact is immediately seen as a problem. However, when fewer men take up a subject than women, as is the situation in fields such as foreign languages, most of the liberal arts, and some of the social sciences, nobody seems to care.

In a passage that foreshadows criticisms of equality from his time to the present, he also mentions the "despotism" of the law required to enforce equality and maintain it.[37]

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.

Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of the girls in this particular group all looked like clones of each other. Well, or of Kim Kardashian or another famous person, famous for no other reason that that were famous for basically doing fuck-all constructive.

The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.

A brand is not a logo. A brand is not a corporate identity system. It's a person's gut feeling about a product, service, or company. Because it depends on others for its existence, it must become a guarantee of trustworthy behavior. Good branding makes business integral to society and creates opportunity for everyone, from the chief executive to the most distant customer.

A charismatic brand includes a dedication to aesthetics. Why? Because it's the language of feeling, and in a society that's information-rich and time-poor, people value feeling more than information.

Make me wanna hollerThe way they do my life

In fact the taboo against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a daily basis.

We should have gone little beyond the Yanomamo if the net outcome of the sexual revolution is a secure position for women at the head of mace squads or in the nuclear command posts.

THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned con­ sumption of human flesh when other foods are available.

Tenemos que librarnos de la idea de que somos una especie agresiva por naturaleza que no sabe evitar la guerra.

From antiquity to modern times, virtually every society that has been organized as a state has condemned the consumption of human flesh more forcefully than it has condemned the consumption of any other kind of animal food.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.