Quotes About Society

In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.

What both enthusiast and skeptic miss is what McLuhan saw: that in the long run a medium's content matters less than the medium itself in influencing how we think and act.

Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Some security experts noted that the countries that nurture terrorists are disproportionally those where women are marginalized. The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.

This phenomenon, called guimai funu, exists on a vast

America now lags behind its peer countries in health care and high-school graduation rates while suffering greater violence, poverty and addiction. This dysfunction damages all Americans:

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation.

Robert Kennedy spoke shortly before his death about the damage to a society caused by "the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men," by "indifference and inaction and slow decay" and by "a slow destruction of children." Kennedy added that "only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our souls.

Americans used to extol good-hearted Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor, and now we've stepped into the shoes of the Sheriff of Nottingham. When as a society we shrug at 30 million children living in low-income families in America, slashing their benefits while urging them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, we need to look in the mirror and have a good talk with ourselves.

the fracturing of our society is grounded not in the weaknesses of a particular leader but in the inability of our institutions to deliver meaningful social progress for the average citizen.

So, yes, teen births reflect individual irresponsibility, but also collective irresponsibility on the part of society. If we're going to blame the kids, we should also acknowledge our collective failure to do a better job creating safety nets so that teenagers overcome by hormones don't damage their futures, not to mention their children's

The problem is that capitalists typically don't know how to divide the pie well and socialists typically don't know how to grow it well.

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men. In the half century between 1965 and 2015, work rates for the American male spiraled relentlessly downward, and an ominous migration commenced: a "flight from work," in which ever-growing numbers of working-age men exited the labor force altogether.

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men.

Indeed, only what does not have a tangible measure can easily be exaggerated in importance. This is the basic reason why the privileged elite in every society has always consisted—and, I submit, will always consist—of members who perform unproductive services under one form or another. Whatever the title under which this elite may receive its share, this share will never be that of worker's wage—even if, as is possible, it may be called by that name.

There is no justice among men.

AMERICANS ARE imbued with the notion that social systems proceed from ideas, because that is what happened at the founding of our country. The relationship of society and ideas can work the other way around, though: people can create social systems first and then invent ideas that will fulfill their need to feel that the world as it exists makes sense.

Huxley believed that anyone "with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality" could do far more good "by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and trying to improve matters there.

Huxley believed tat anyone "with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality" could do far more good "by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and trying to improve matters there.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Adam Ferguson], 'Of the Principle of

It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.