Quotes About Society

f]emales are very interested in colonizing high-value male spaces," "[m]ale groups are subverted and redirected to fem-centric goals/visions if women are present and not managed with an iron fist."1

the left is the party of the educational organs, at whose head is the press and universities. This is our 20th-century version of the established church. Here at UR, we sometimes call it the Cathedral.

As the motto went, "Communism is 20th century Americanism.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1

There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

Souls in a high state of advancement are often found in humble circumstances on Earth. By the same token, people in the upper strata of influence in human society are by no means in a blissful state of soul maturity. Often, just the reverse is true.

Personal ideals and values can result in general happiness for society as a whole, if we become fully engaged with the righteousness of the soul mind as the core power of Self.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.

The New Republic had traded efficiency for democracy and oligarchy for bureaucracy—and had done so willingly and knowingly.

There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.

As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly embrace the latter.

How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise.

One kills so many people, these days, that it's hard to keep track.

When these pocket computers started getting common, old people like me catastrophized about how bad it was going to be, but we were wrong. It's much worse. We've been looking at each other's faces for a million years. But now you don't see faces anymore. At night on the sidewalks of Toronto people walk around in the dark looking down into tiny lamplit rooms they hold in their hands.

You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle.

Why is it that men have pride but women have shame?

Every society gets the criminals it deserves" is her philosophy. "And the police force it's willing to pay for, rather than the one it insists upon.

Most of the guys were drunk, checking out the teenage girls in their crotch-defying dresses and fuck-me heels. I feel sorry for hookers these days - how do they stand out any more?