Quotes About Society

You confuse our higher and lower functions, harnessing our drives and motivating us down an unnatural path, one in which human beings are reprogrammed to covet products and ignore reality.

And yet, in the words of Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

was Balzac, half in jest, who mused, 'What will become of the world when all women are like George Sand?

Education is political.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

its discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by decite

Las Vegas: It was not cafe society, it was Nescafe society.

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

Boys are not supposed to cry. Because when they do, things get worse. Then suddenly you have two problems. You have whatever it was that made you cry in the first place, and then you also have the problem that you are a boy crying. And someone is bound to let you know this is worse. So now you have two problems.

Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

If women are trapped by the whore/Madonna complex, men are equally trapped by this warrior/minstrel complex. What's more, while a man is expected to be modern, that is, to support feminism in all its particulars, to see and treat women as equals in every respect, he is on the other hand often still expected to be traditional at the same time, to treat a lady like a lady, to lead the way and pick up the check.

Os vivos comunicam-se mutuamente numa linguagem que, em grande medida, foi moldada pelos mortos. Assim, os mortos se vingam dos vivos por violarem seus valores.

Mozart experienced the fundamental ambivalence of the bourgeois artist in court society, which can be summed up by the following dichotomy: identification with the court nobility and its taste; resentment of his humiliation by it.

Die Formverachtung geht auf Kosten der Minderheit.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information. Thus, communication and control belong to the essence of man's inner life, even as they belong to his life in society.