Quotes About Society

sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.

Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly did its best. But of course, if a method had been found to clear up people's finances and put them on a hundred per cent legitimate, transparent basis, it would have worked for everyone, politicians and tax officials included.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.

his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.

Something is out there, some society, moving with a malign purpose. A society inimical to ours, bent on destroying us for no reason we know.

There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression

The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon.

It had to be done, they were determined about that; some attempt had to be made to break the cycle of crime and poverty.

Who wants to wind up living in a theocracy?

Human civilization is always regulated, Del. It's how it maintains itself, the eternal balance between freedom and authority. We all live in the middle, obeying the rules for the common good.

must remember that military force ultimately exists to serve the civilian populace, even though we might despise their choice of leaders.

knowledge is a true power in any society

Does my willingness to do my duty make the human race a bunch of dangerous killers?

On Earth everybody is a foreigner to their neighbour. It's because we're all squashed up so tight. Privacy is a cherished commodity. In public places, people don't chat to strangers, they avoid eye contact. It's because that's the way they want to be treated. I'm

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.

Carys accepted a glass of white wine from the maidbot

I've studied this city's society closely while I've been here; it's conservative and sliding down the decadence decay curve.

the newly arrived Ivets being hunted down and killed. Beaten into the mud with makeshift clubs, or gored by baying sayce to the sound of cheers. If they looked through the window at an angle they would be able to see boats of all sizes sailing hurriedly out of the circular polyp harbours for the safety of the water. I hate Adamists, Lori said. Only Adamists could do this to one another. They do it because they don't know one another. They don't love, they can only lust and fear.

Why don't Edenists believe, then? Our culture proscribes nothing providing it doesn't harm the majority.

Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.

If everyone was educated to the highest standard possible. We would all be equal." "We can't all be aristocrats. Who would do all the work?