Quotes About Society

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.

Nature didn't disturb the peace, people did.

Man. He felt almost guilty about the condoms in his wallet. A guy wasn't supposed to lust after Beaver Cleaver's mom.

Being a man in the twenty-first century can be confusing, because our society's concept of how men are supposed to act keeps changing. Should we be the manly, aggressive Fight Club king of guys? Should we be sensitive, hair-gelled, moisturizer-slathering metrosexuals? Are we expected to pick up the tab on a date? Should we open the doors for women or not? The rules and expectations, it seems, are constantly shifting. It wasn't always this hard.

But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army.

It was more like an encounter with grace. Tita faced crushing poverty without being crushed. As a reporter in the States, I had tried to understand what kept people from seizing opportunity in a society of plenty. As a reporter in Leveriza, I tried to understand how people seized opportunity where it scarcely existed.

Every reporter who sets off across the borders of class and culture should find such kind, candid, and wise guides.

Migration had brought development, to a degree that no one had imagined. And development brought more migration.

There was no path from teaching that led anywhere else she might want to go. A woman taught, had kids, retired, died.

people valued politeness more than truth

People can't get work done at work anymore. That turns life into work's leftovers. The doggie bag. What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

Freedom is slavery," wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984.

Miriam remembered that the holiday dated to the rebellion of the ancient Jews against forced assimilation by Greek society.

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as 'parasites' fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world ' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

La responsabilidad siempre es ajena, y es tan fácil esparcirla…

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.