Quotes About Society

This is the dark side of the "American dream." We blame the poor, accusing them of being poor because they do not work hard enough. Yet for the most part, the poor have less because the rich have taken more.

The fact that you have the intention to work for others is important. Act on your wholesome intentions and altruistic impulses. If you have the thought of benefiting society, that is significant. Nurture and treasure that thought, and act on it as best you can. Doing so will certainly change you, and that in itself can be the start of the change you want to see in your world. – 17th Karmapa

We need to let the heart lead. Compassion is indispensable; it is the single most important factor we need if we are going to have any real success in protecting the environment, in creating a just society, or simply in living wholesome, happy lives.

It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." ? Albert Camus

What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.

Nobody takes any notice of old women who wander around with their shopping bags.

Its Animals show the truth about a country," I said. "Its attitude toward Animals. If people behave brutally toward Animals, no form of democracy is ever going to help them, in fact nothing will at all.

?ycie w t?umie jest gorsze ni? wi?zienie.

What is the point of a law that applies only to some? The law should be observed for everyone without exception, wherever our ships and our money are able to take us.

She thought about how hno one had taught us to grow old, how we didn't know what it would be like. When we were young we though of old age as an ailment that affected only other people. While we, for reasons never entirely clear, would remain young. We treated the old as though they were responsible for their condition somehow, as though they'd done something to earn it, like some types of diabetes or arteriosclerosis. And yet this was an ailment that affected the absolute most innocent.

Czyli nie da si? zawróci? kobiety z samoniszcz?cej drogi choroby umys?owej? (...) - U m??czyzny silna wola pomo?e zwalczy? niektóre pokusy szale?stwa, lecz kobiety s? jej prawie zupe?nie pozbawione i nie maj? ?adnego or??a do walki.

In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks," Dizzy sermonized with contagious certainty.

The child seems quite a nice little thing." "But how long will she stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really, Mabel!" "And nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the hearth, "I'm sure I don't want my son meeting her at dances, and things, as he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall in love with a girl with such a mother!

But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

the laws govern the poor, and the rich govern the law

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

That genes explain our behaviour and well-being distracts attention from society as a cause; such ideas also encourage us to accept or pursue chemical, physical solutions, not social change.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.