Quotes About Society

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

El pueblo se siente, emisión a emisión, parte viva del gobierno. El efecto mediático del programa es irrefrenable.

La degradación excesiva del poder, que hace que todos los actores importantes puedan vetar las iniciativas de los demás pero ninguno de ellos pueda imponer su voluntad, es un peligro tan grave para el sistema político y la sociedad de un país, o para cualquier comunidad o incluso una familia, como para el sistema de naciones.

As politics devolves into pure spectacle, people begin to relate to their political leaders in the same way they relate to their favorite entertainers and sports stars.

Power has a social function.

Similarly, the long-entrenched power of the major organized religions is decaying at a remarkably rapid pace.

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

power has a social function. Its role is not just to enforce domination or to create winners and losers: it also organizes communities, societies, marketplaces, and the world.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

Le scandale du monde, est ce qui fait l'offense; Et ce n'est pas pécher, que pécher en silence.

Die Tugend, deren die Gesellschaft bedarf, ist die Umgänglichkeit; zuviel Gesinnung kann durchaus tadelnswert sein; vollkommene Vernunft vermeidet alle extremen Einstellungen

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Ah, there are no longer any children!

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

It was a split [between the way I was saw myself…and the way I was expected to behave] that brought up to date the age-old dualism between body and soul, virgin and whore. (Haskell xiii)

She said in an interview with Polly Devlin in 1983 that the pseudonym was essential because, 'for a woman to read a book, let alone write one, was viewed with alarm; I would have been banned from every respectable house.

Rabbit in Keane's world is a food more suitable for the lower echelons of society (and children: 'the cook sent up [to the nursery] whatever came easiest, mostly rabbit stews,' Aroon notes). It is available to all from the fields; it is not procured from butchers, sanitised and billed-for.

herself to be ugly, enormous, ungainly, taller than is acceptable, 'bosoms, swinging like jelly bags,' forever cursed as the plain daughter of a beautiful mother.

her books are shot through with painful parties and awkwardly inane dining-table conversation,

That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

fifty, ambitiously but unsuccessfully dressed in a black satin