Quotes About Society

God's self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society.

What is required for the salvation of the center and for the creation of a just society is the radical commitment to be in solidarity with those who exist on the margins of society and to accompany them in their daily struggle.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Sí, ya sé que uno de esos caudillos de la que llaman la revolución social ha dicho que la religión es el opio del puebo. Opio... Opio... Opio, sí. Démosle opio, y que duerma y que sueñe.

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.

El hombre nace bueno, es naturalmente bueno; la sociedad le malea y pervierte...

La palabra, este producto social, se ha hecho para mentir.

Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan sospechosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

Todas as éticas são evolutivas: o que hoje é normal, amanhã será horrendo e o que hoje é crime, amanhã será banal.

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

If we assume, however, that the desire to achieve optimal experience is the foremost goal of every human being, the difficulties of interpretation raised by cultural relativism become less severe. Each social system can then be evaluated in terms of how much psychic entropy it causes, measuring that disorder not with reference to the ideal order of one or another belief system, but with reference to the goals of the members of that society.

Instead of accepting the unity of purpose provided by genetic instructions or by the rules of society, the challenge for us is to create harmony based on reason and choice.

In the heyday of its material splendor, our society is suffering from an astonishing variety of strange ills.

A starting point would be to say that one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals. A second essential criterion would specify that these experiences should lead to the growth of the self on an individual level, by allowing as many people as possible to develop increasingly complex skills.

The record seems to suggest that a society begins to rely heavily on leisure-and especially on passive leisure-only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.

As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

como Freud señaló, los dos tiranos que luchan por el control de la mente son el Inconsciente y el Superyó, el primero es un criado de los genes y el segundo un lacayo de la sociedad (ambos representan el "Otro").

The perfect society would be able to strike a healthy balance between the spiritual and material worlds, but short of aiming for perfection, we can look toward Eastern religions for guidance in how to achieve control over consciousness.

one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.