Quotes About Society

civilization is built on the repression of individual desires

ningún cambio social puede suceder mientras no cambie primero la conciencia de los individuos. Cuando

How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience.

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for—rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.

The last great attempt to free consciousness from the domination of impulses and social controls was psychoanalysis; as Freud pointed out, the two tyrants that fought for control over the mind were the id and the superego, the first a servant of the genes, the second a lackey of society—both representing the "Other." Opposed to them was the ego, which stood for the genuine needs of the self connected to its concrete environment.

In making us work for its goals, society is assisted by some powerful allies: our biological needs and our genetic conditioning.

How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience. Any small gain in that direction will make life more rich, more enjoyable, more meaningful.

As Freud and many others before and after him have noted, civilization is built on the repression of individual desires.

Control over consciousness cannot be institutionalized. As soon as it becomes part of a set of social rules and norms, it ceases to be effective in the way it was originally intended to be.

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.

la civilización se construye sobre la represión de los deseos individuales.

In contemporary preliterate societies this knowledge is so deeply ingrained that a person who likes to be alone is assumed to be a witch, for a normal person would not choose to leave the company of others unless forced to do so.

In the United States and the other technologically advanced societies, individualism and materialism have almost completely prevailed over allegiance to the community and to spiritual values.

the common assumption was the sports boycott of South Africa would not be lifted until South Africa became a normal society and had one person, one vote. Now it was clear Mandela was going to use sport to make South Africa normal, to achieve his great dream of a rainbow country.

Kdo si postaví d?m, je jeho otrokem. Kdo obdÄ›lává p?du, je jejím otrokem.

Doubtless you would prefer a gayer woman than myself. But I would be gay—

Stryj Haakani kazaÅ' babie by? cicho, co powinno by? gÅ'ównÄ… rolÄ… kobiet na tym padole Å'ez, zwÅ'aszcza w obecnoÅ›ci m??czyzn.

Christians can influence the world for the better again. But it will mean making a commitment to stand by a worldview that current society often rejects and ridicules.

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.

we live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it" -Onookome Okome

We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.

Primitive societies live by the Rule of Might, and the strong prevail. Advanced societies live by the Rule of Law, and the privileged prevail. Enlightened societies live by the Rule of Love, and everyone is lifted higher.