Quotes About Society

A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

All individual and social woes are born of passion for work.

Dans notre société, quelles sont les classes qui aiment le travail pour le travail ? Les paysans propriétaires, les petits bourgeois, qui les uns courbés sur leurs terres, les autres acoquinés dans leurs boutiques, se remuent comme la taupe dans sa galerie souterraine, et jamais ne se redressent pour regarder à loisir la nature.

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

In a society without shame, where faking it is making it and deceit trumps virtue, integrity is for losers and cheaters win. Fairness? Forget about it! A meritocracy? In your dreams! Earn your diploma? Why bother, when you can buy it?

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

In my mind android is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but behaving in a nonhuman way.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Con la infotecnología (o tecnología de la información), sin embargo, grandes tramos del proyecto socialista utópico han pasado a ser posibles:

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

Apparently long hair was enough to make you a faggot in Chicago in '68.

Qui sert la bourgeoisie ne sert pas les hommes.

One can understand that there are more methodical arguments for revolution, but few that are more persuasive than this one: it takes leisure to be a man.

The United States drove itself to civil war because the society valued profits over Black humanity,

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed of most white people in the nation: "They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately, this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.

España no experimentó una clásica revolución burguesa en la que se rompieran las estructuras del Antiguo Régimen. El poder de la monarquía, de la nobleza terrateniente y de la Iglesia seguían más o menos intactos bien entrado el siglo XX.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.

What one is muddled about may well be the consequence of one's specific relation to society, politics, and history.

Our work is deeply rooted in respect for the patient. Most of us want to help people who often have been left behind and forgotten by society.

Cooking brought huge nutritional benefits," Wrangham writes. "But it also trapped women into a newly subservient role enforced by male-dominated culture … It is not a pretty picture.

Our failure to acknowledge fathers' importance is now reflected in the shape of the American family. Fathers are disappearing. Fewer American fathers are participating in the lives of their children now than at any time since the United States began keeping records.

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity's richest present and future." – Paul Robeson