Quotes About Society

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.

Es fácil que la gente se comporte como amiga cuando uno es rico, pero muy pocos harán lo mismo cuando uno es pobre. Si la riqueza es un imán, la pobreza es una especie de repelente.

Es de sentido común que un sistema legal inmoral e injusto sólo puede engendrar desprecio hacia sus normas y sus leyes. Llegamos

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

A dama do lotação Às

Eu acho o seguinte: a mulher deve casar... O homem, não. —

vale ressaltar o papel primordial que Nelson atribui às mulheres e sua força, numa sociedade de tradição patriarcal e patrícia como a nossa.

Men and women in the United States carried a terrific burden

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

You could have done something with newspapers. We didn't do it. No nation did, because we were all too silly. We liked our newspapers with pictures of beach girls and headlines about cases of indecent assault, and no Government was wise enough to stop us having them that way. But something might have been done with newspapers, if we'd been wise enough.

Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization.

When television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air… and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

El agua que bebo, la comida que como, la ropa que uso, la cama donde duermo; todo está determinado por la política, sea ésta buena o mala. La

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.

It's the outside world that's the prison. The outside world of jobs and cars and cell phones and apartments and grocery stores. Appropriate clothing, plans for a Saturday night, loneliness.

I don't know. I mean, what else is there to do? People might say I'm wasting my life, but it's all relative. If I was a lawyer, I'd go to fucking law school--but I'm not. I'm a drug addict and so what do I do? Use right? Use until the wheels fall off

Hay dos panes. Usted se come dos. Yo ninguno. Consumo promedio: un pan por persona.