Quotes About Society

The Gini Coefficient quantifies how large a percentage of the total income of a society must be redistributed in order to achieve a perfectly equal distribution of wealth.

They had inherited a poor, patriarchal, and formal society, and turned it into a rich, feminist, and fiercely egalitarian one.

This, truly, is the ugly side of rampant neo-liberalist capitalism," I thought to myself, leaving hurriedly. "Not even the Swedes would put Camembert and Tandoori sauce in a burger." The

The welfare state is the most important innovation of any country in the postwar period. Before it, Denmark was split between 25 percent with the highest income, 25 percent at the bottom: now we have 4 percent at the top and 4 percent at the bottom.

We are often consciously unaware of the culture we live or work in, or of the profound influence it has on our lives.

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.

It took more paper than ever to support the paperless society.

Dystopia is just someone's failed attempt at utopia. In a dystopian novel or movie, society is the bad guy, or at least one of the antagonists. In real life Nazi society was as much to blame as Hitler. There is usually a "shift" that  initiates this change, this shift can be anything from hunger ("Soylent Green"), to a tornado (the "Wizard of Oz") to a deadly virus (my story, "Apocalypse Conspiracy).

I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Abstract academic discussions have a way of leaving their mark on entire civilizations, as the events of this century have proved all too well.

La nación más culta y religiosa de Europa permitió que lo impensable creciera en su seno.

The foundation of democracy is conscience—personal responsibility. The society that abandons moral absolutes must eventually degenerate into a police state. Well, this nation has abandoned morality. Is it realistic to think we can avoid the consequences?

Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending to be men; men becoming more like women; everyone aping divinity in his desperation to escape creaturehood?

In pained tones, Ottavio outlined his opinion that people were not eating enough these days. All they ever thought about was their figures, a selfish, shortsighted view contributing directly to the impoverishment of restaurateurs and the downfall of civilization as we know it. What the Goths, the Huns, and the Turks had failed to do was now being achieved by a conspiracy of dietitians who were bringing the country to its knees with all this talk of cholesterols, calories, and the evils of salt.

The questions of marriage, family, and sexuality have never been resolved," says Gary [Snyder]. "Not by the Japanese, and less so by the Americans. They just overlook them. They don't know what else to do with them.

If we are committed to discerning, then defeating, the contemporary logic of racism, we must separate it from its ties to democracy itself. In order to be true patriots, we must become disloyal to chronically prejudiced views of American society that persist in our rather ignoble Trumpian moment.

Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.

Wolf acknowledged that "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of the police will never happen to them.

Oh God, we are near complete despair. How can we possibly change our fate? How can we possibly persuade our society that we deserve to be treated with decency and respect? How can we possibly fight a criminal justice system that has been designed to ensure our defeat? How can we possibly combat the blindness of white men and women who are so deeply invested in their own privilege that they cannot afford to see how much we suffer?