Quotes About Society

And whether they were saintly or corrupt, scholars or scarcely able to get through the Lord's Prayer in Latin, all society's educated men had the Church to thank for their learning.

Edward Rutherfurd

Supongo que la gente no ha parado de alterar las normas desde que los griegos inventaron la democracia o, incluso, desde que el hombre inventó la rueda.

London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desempeña en los hechos históricos que se describen. Al seguir la historia de estas familias imaginarias a lo largo de los siglos, he tratado de situarlas entre personas

Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podía tolerar, pero las mujeres debían regirse por unas normas mucho más severas.

Los ricos, los de clase media y los pobres se codeaban sin mayor problema, al igual que lo sagrado y lo profano.

Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker the democracy.

In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat next.

Edward St. Aubyn

politicians seemed to be recruited exclusively from the locked wards of psychiatric hospitals

And then the old exhortations would come out: observe everything…trust nobody…despise your mother…effort is vulgar…things were better in the eighteenth century.

the culture with the most peace, money, and leisure is also the one with the most malignant sadness.

When you have to manage the world, please everyone, earn more than you did last year, and work off five pounds, you will be driven. If not, you run the risk of being un-American or even un-Christian because our economy and churches rely on such people. Even when paralyzed by circumstances, a stressed person is a driven person.

any community or family discussion, those who are the first to introduce concern for empathy feel powerless, and are trying to use the togetherness force of a regressed society to get those whom they perceive to have power to adapt to them.

But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient.

There were whole habitats where people had had their higher brain functions disengaged, so that they could live like sheep under the care of machines

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and ''historical tasks'' is an actual or potential assassin.