Quotes About Society

Something born from human pride and the quest for pleasure cannot be considered true culture.

The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

The problem nowadays is that, by and large, we do a pretty bad job of picking role models. We glorify actors, singers, athletes, and generic "celebrities," only to be disappointed when—predictably—it turns out that their excellence at reciting, singing, playing basketball, or racking up Facebook likes and Twitter followers has pretty much nothing to do with their moral fiber.

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people's lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

By contrast, everyone can have a good life according to the Cynics, but few of us are inclined to spend it living in a tub and defecating in the streets.

Stoics shifted the emphasis very much toward the social, essentially arguing that the point of life for human beings is to use reason to build the best society that it is humanly possible to build.

Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and important, and pseudoscience too common and damaging, for an open society to afford ignorance on the matter.

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Curing America's racial pathology couldn't be done with good intentions or presidential elections.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

Por qué lo que era inteligente para Martín era feo y peligroso para Catalina? Si Martín podía, Catalina podía y yo era Martín y Catalina al tiempo, de donde se infería, aunque costara de entender, que lo que un hombre podía poner en ejecución también podía ponerlo una mujer.

en Japón se puede fumar en el interior de los locales pero no en la calle).

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

How do we define "normal?" Quite literally it comes from the Latin norma meaning "carpenter's square." Straight. And "abnormal?" That's from the Greek anomalos, and the Latin abnormis meaning "monstrosity.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.

A problem with living in the twenty-first century..... we are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have only been to ten other countries. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren't photo shopped and filtered.

Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

Happiness is not good for the economy. We are encouraged, continually, to be a little bit dissatisfied with ourselves.

As civilisation advances, so does indifference.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?' And then he had told her about a man called Roger Dunbar at Oxford University, who had discovered that human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.