Quotes About Society

Safe roads are the bones of civilization.

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.

Siempre había creído que era del mundo en general de lo que tenia que apartarse, pero ahora lo veía claro no se trataba del mundo, si no de los seres humanos. Al parecer, en el mundo, en el mundo sin hombres, la vida era soportable

These Diderots and d'Alemberts and Voltaires and Rousseaus or whatever names these scribblers have - there are even clerics among them and gentleman of noble birth! - they've finally managed to infect the whole society with their perfidious fidgets, with their sheer delight in discontent and their unwillingness to be satisfied with anything in this world, in short, with the boundless chaos that reigns inside their own heads!

Gdziekolwiek spojrze?, szerzy si? zaraza. Ludzie czytaj? ksi??ki, nawet kobiety.

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general that he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity.

Es war aber nicht die Welt, es waren die Menschen. Mit der Welt, so schien es, der menschenleeren Welt, ließ es sich leben.

Dondequiera que uno dirigiese la mirada, reinaba el desenfreno. La gente leía libros, incluso las mujeres.

Mind if I sit down?" asked Conrad. "It's a free country," said Toni. "Then why is everything so expensive?" said

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

I wandered through Kino parlors and peered through the windows of the magnificent sprawling Grant's Raw Bar filled with men in black coats scooping up piles of fresh oysters.

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

I do not, of course, propose to neglect the sick, the feeble or the unfortunate," wrote Galton, "but I would exact an equivalent for the charitable assistance they receive by preventing the more faulty members of the flock from breeding." Galton argued that lunatics, criminals, and paupers should be placed in monasteries and convents "for the purpose of restricting their opportunities for producing low-class offspring." Breeding had become weeding.

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.

Please, go ahead and improve society if you can, but meanwhile people are suffering, and I have a job to do.

The great spectacle of human crookedness. It keeps coming at you from all sides, and whether you like it or not, it's the most interesting show in town.

Eds atbildot kaut ko no?urd un pied?v? Bovenam aps?sties, negaid?ti piemin?dams fragmentu no "Voldenas", kad ar žestu nor?da uz vien?go kr?slu istab?. Toro teica, ka vi?a m?j? esot tr?s kr?sli, Eds ieminas. Viens vientul?bai, otrs draudz?bai un trešais sabiedr?bai. Man ir tikai viens kr?sls vientul?bai. Ja v?l piemer kl?t gultu, varb?t san?k divi draudz?bai.

the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the artworks on display,

Beautiful women aren't allowed to be doctors. It's against the rules.

Hector daha ünlü bir y?ld?z olsayd? bu öyküler sürüp giderdi ku?kusuz.Kendisi hakk?nda anlat?lanlarda ya?ar,toplumsal bilincin alt katmanlar?nda yer edinmi? simgesel ki?ilerden birine dönü?ür;gençli?in,umudun ve kaderin ?eytanca oyunlar?n?n temsilcisi haline gelirdi.