Quotes About Society

Co?kun: Bir ?ey yapmad???m için cezaland?r?ld?m. Büyük adam rolü oynayarak zavall? milletime nutuk çekti?im için cezaland?r?ld?m. Servet: Öyle olsayd?, bu zavall? milletin ba??nda kim kal?r bugün.

Fakat bizde erkeklerin, k?r?tmaya çal??arak hizmet etmesi bir garip oluyor. ?yi terbiye edilmemi? sirk hayvanlar?na benziyorlar. Efendimiz, milletimiz u?akl??a al??am?yor bir türlü.

Gerçek mühendislerin k?z çocu?u olurmu?.

Bu ülke, sorular?n yanl?? sorulmas? yüzünden bat?yor zaten.

Every party has its criminals and its fools, because every party has its men.

Si infâmes que soient les canailles, elles ne le sont jamais autant que les honnêtes gens.

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.

why can't I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing—although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.

He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

Down on Earth," she said carefully, "there are no people left to draw lines on maps and say which sides of those lines are the right sides. There is no government left. No human government, anyway.

The thing is, we hear gunfire so much that we don't hear it.

More people die           Of unenlightened self-interest           Than of any other disease.

I mean, that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something." Indeed, he would. "Yes," I said. "He does seem to enjoy calling people things like that. Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems.

His father wasn't the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive.

I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.

The ease. Us, the children … I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can't afford water, food, or shelter.

Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for them. He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

Politicians and big corporations get the bread, and we get the circuses.

My point is—my question is—how in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now?

I didn't know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.