Quotes About Society

On the contrary, religion, ethics, and society are subservient to 'the market'. In that sense, neo-liberalism is no longer an economic theory, but a much broader ideology.

De postmoderne mens lijdt aan een vreemde dissociatie, een nieuwe vorm van persoonlijkheidsverdubbeling. We klagen het systeem aan, staan er vijandig tegenover en voelen ons machteloos om het te veranderen. Anderzijds gedragen we ons op een manier die het systeem voortdurend bevestigt en uitbreidt.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

It must be the condition of our age. There are more explosions, but they are only the side effect of not accepting the nature of our wrongness, of believing it must be the world that is deformed instead— unsure whether to abandon or destroy it, some opt for both.

Dystopias are scary because you can see people struggling, but utopias are scarier because you can see that they stopped.

The good which proceeds from a false basis (and such a case can happen in times of upheaval) is a very real evil for the entire society. It encourages the factious, not in this respect, that they search for the good, but rather because the deceitful appeal of that good delivers over to them virtuous men and makes them their accomplices.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

I've noticed that TV commercials are often in C.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

real business of what it meant to live in those time periods came alive for

The Philadelphia Story, but

Our schools are no closer in connecting the education of children to their development as human beings: each child as an individual with a unique contribution to make to the world. Until this is done, our schools will fail to help children become active learners, connected to their society, and empowered to accomplish things within it.

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run. ~ Ulene

A country where everybody always running from the next body feeling they's better. But mark my words, one of these days they gon all run out of where-to-run.

You never knew. Cultures were mine fields.

Young people could get away with rough clothing but unless the elderly dressed with care they looked like homeless vagabonds

Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies. The

The Captain's hand went to his forehead. A dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit.

How many human beings remain in this world, unvanquished and at liberty in plains like these? So few, so few. Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Vesey said there would be the men coming home, towns going up. That's the place for a free nigger, is freighting. That's what the free niggers did in the South, done it for years. White men don't care if you freight or barber. Now I don't want to be a barber. I'd cut somebody's ear off by mistake and they'd lynch me. "Don't make jokes like that," said Britt.

dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

there was only one prison in Texas, and that was in Huntsville, but it was a place for hardened criminals and those who had used firearms to deprive others of their goods and savings, who had shot somebody in a political argument, had chopped up other people into tiny bits, that's the kind of people they send to Huntsville.

A culpa foi minha. Por ter desejado ser o que jamais poderia ser. A culpa é do mundo, que me ensinou a odiar.