Quotes About Society

A stable, peaceful society is the training ground for humanity, just as caged animals, removed from the violent unpredictability of the wild, are influenced by the behaviour of their captors in time.

Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.4 —Warren Buffett

The dreams of others must not be the hurdle for your's, but the pain of others must be the part of your version of dream in the way that you could feel the satisfaction because you know deep in your heart that they deserve to be helped because they are in pain for true participation and for the improvement of many lives, The dream must have this essential trait of improving your character by lifting up the moral values of the society"

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.

Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.

When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

Today, we ask not what we can do for our country but what our country, employer, fast-food purveyor, or favorite airline can do for us.

La idea tradicional de que es inevitable que las desigualdades económicas persistan e incluso empeoren hace que todos seamos, en cierto modo, marxistas.

La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar. El

Una organización no gubernamental organizada por un gobierno es una impostora que pretende aparecer como parte de la sociedad civil, pero que en realidad está instigada, financiada o dirigida por un gobierno o un grupo de gente que actúa en su nombre.

somos más vulnerables a las malas ideas y los malos líderes.

opinaba Weber, la clave para ejercer el poder en la sociedad moderna era la organización burocrática.

Estas tendencias se observan no solo en los ámbitos tradicionales de lucha por el poder —la guerra, la política y la economía—, sino en otros como la filantropía, la religión y la cultura, además del poder personal e individual.

cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

Empujada por los cambios en la manera de adquirir, usar y retener el poder, la humanidad debe encontrar, y encontrará, nuevas fórmulas para gobernarse

La clave es esta: cuando las personas son más numerosas y viven vidas más plenas, se vuelven más difíciles de regular, dominar y controlar.

when people conclude that their economic and social progress is blocked, and they are stuck in a lower rung than the one they expected to occupy in society. Status dissonance is amplified by the sense that rather than coming closer to your rightful place in society, you're falling further and further below your natural spot in the pecking order.

el poder estructura la sociedad, contribuye a regir las relaciones y a organizar las interacciones entre las personas dentro de cada comunidad y entre las comunidades y naciones.

Today, new identity groups form around a burning sense of grievance. They're brought together by the very real experience of being left behind economically, disrespected culturally, and immersed in an increasingly alien-seeming, threatening society.

For all these differences, the basic insight remains: when a critical mass of people in society feel their expectations in life have been dashed, conditions soon build up to a crisis. And in today's world, those whose expectations have been dashed are able to reach out to one another and build communities of meaning in a way that had never been technologically possible before.