Quotes About Society

Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%.

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

Ninguna cultura del espíritu, me recordó, había sido capaz de desarrollarse jamás en las sociedades con un alto índice de delincuencia, simplemente porque la seguridad física es la condición del pensamiento libre, y ninguna reflexión, ninguna poesía, ningún pensamiento mínimamente creativo ha logrado nacer nunca en un individuo que tenga que preocuparse de su supervivencia, que tenga que estar siempre en guardia.

Ninguna civilización, ninguna época han sido capaces de desarrollar en los hombres tal cantidad de amargura. Desde este punto de vista, vivimos tiempos sin precedentes. Si hubiera que resumir el estado mental contemporáneo en una palabra yo elegiría, sin dudarlo, amargura.

Il me semble (...) que j'avais bien compris, déjà à cette époque, que le monde social était une machine à détruire l'amour.

Ce qui donnait à l'homme une dignité supplémentaire; c'était la télévision.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Depuis des années, le grand formateur des consciences n'est plus l'école, elle aussi vendue au marché et aux idéologues, mais l'écran – la télévision, le net, le tweet.

Evet, kad?nlar?n da erkekler gibi çirkin olabilme hakk?na kavuÅŸmalar? için mücadele etmeleri gerekiyor. Otuz ya??n üstündeki bir han?ma yaÅŸ sorulmaz diye geçiÅŸtirilen ve sanki yüz k?zart?c? bir hastal?k söz konusuymuÅŸ gibi bu konuda en ufak an??t?rmadan bile kaç?n?lan bu iÄŸrenç uzlaÅŸmay? b?rakmak gerek art?k.

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Don't regard my characters as symbols of a determined society. See them as something that sparks a reaction within you so that they become a personal experience. The critic is a spectator and an artist insofar as he transforms the work into a personal thing of his own.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Yoshino distinguishes covering from "conversion" (trying to become straight) and "passing" (staying in the closet), and points out that even after gay people come out, society exerts a "covering demand" on its minority members. I would argue that, by pleading for more magnanimous treatment of our opponents, gay thought leaders were unconsciously applying the covering demand to the LGBT equality movement as a whole.

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

The "Great Society" has not worked and it's put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security... They don't have the modern welfare state and China's growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they'd be gone.

The worst part about being a fat woman isn't that people look at you with judgment in their eyes. It's that most don't look at you at all. You cease to be a person for whom they need to account. They look over your shoulder, or at the ground in front of you, or they glaze their eyes and look directly through you. It's like being a ghost, but with none of the fun of haunting.

You know, I always think about going back to college. Just to catch up on all those books that supposedly shape our lives but nobody ever reads." "Yeah? Like what?" . . . "Well, there's the Bible. You ever read it?" "Parts," said Lewis. "Well, this whole wrecked civilization is based on a book most people have only read parts of.

But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles. –JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU