Quotes About Society

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Man is a solitary animal condemned to live in herds.

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.

When a society pretends to even a shred of civility — and in the bourgeois century, most societies did — it is hard to predict just where or when oppositional humor will overstep the bounds of propriety or of the law.

read, and his last book was Balzac's mysterious tale of the magical shrinking skin, La Peau de chagrin.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

Antisemitism became institutionalized in elite and conservative society rather than in laws.

Two caveats about this collective brainwashing need stressing. First, it did not necessarily change what older people thought, but it decisively changed what they would say or do.

The veneer of civilization is thin, the rule of law is fragile, and the precondition of both is economic and political calm.

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse.

Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place.

Rich people are another species. Sort of lost in their own way. It's a good thing they have country clubs and shit because it keeps them kinda corralled up in one place. Jack had surely decided that neither one in that marriage of scientists was very appetizing.

The conservative society accepts that rebellion and bad behaviour are natural and must be curbed. The liberal society requires all its citizens to be perfectly balanced, conforming to its ideals and aims with a happy heart and a willing mind

The older cruelty, which took the ugly form of workhouses, shame and stigma, was hard to bear because it required active harshness from the state and from individuals. The new cruelty, which leaves hundreds of thousands of children without a proper family, is imposed through many acts of generosity by the state and the taxpayers, and through the broad-minded tolerance of individuals and opinion-formers. It is therefore easier to bear in a society which has nationalized its conscience.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

I think it is important for our society to wonder why it has lately become so ready to accept that human woe can be cured or soothed by chemicals. These chemicals do not alter or reform the ills of our civilisation. They adapt the human being to them.

If you drive God out the world then you create a howling wilderness." (Copyright: www.changinglives.au.com )

the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.

This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.