Quotes About Society

This brings us to the second Enlightenment assumption often taken for granted today: that political beliefs and attitudes come in two packages, and that everyone has to choose one or the other.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Aucune protection, pas d'assurance, menaces et terreur de partout, de la famille, de l'entourage, de l'Etat, d'un jeune mollah de Qom qui peut te viser du doit et t'envoyer en enfer. p368

It was a white-collar crime." Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

True Psy are Silent." "Correction," he said. "Psy in the Net are Silent. Psy outside the Net are not. Both are Psy." And none of them affected him as viscerally as this woman who'd been dumped outside his home like so much garbage.

year by year, I see more and more darkness creep into their world. They're slowly going beyond cold, to a place that makes me scared for the Psy race as a whole.

A civil war that has awakened a whispering understanding in the populace about the ugly irony of Silence: in creating a society that rewards lack of emotion, the Psy have created fertile ground for the rise of psychopathic personalities to the leadership of their race. An individual who feels nothing is, after all, the perfect graduate of Silence. Ruthless. Cold-blooded. Without mercy . . . without conscience.

Murder and gore. The world laps it up.

In another life, she could've been a professor. In this life, she'd been a rich man's wife. Now, she was just bones.

So I don't see the theme of the story as nature versus science. I see it as a conflict between demanding and understanding, between the kinds of labor that our society values or doesn't value, "innovators" versus "maintainers." It's

Maybe in Sue Cox's case they shouldn't be called laugh lines, Bena thought. Not in Bena's own case either. Who was it that thought women got wrinkles from laughing so much?

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Tyrannical fathers, oppressed daughters, and repugnant suitors are scattered throughout English history.

The 6s, of course, was the worst time in the world to try to bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.