Quotes About Society

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

History is where tensions were.

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little.

It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!