Quotes About Society

Gentlemen now went out without their usual entourage, but they could be seen carrying a bag over their arms on their way to shop for food. When two friends ran into each other on the street, they would say hello from a distance, in hurried, wordless gestures.

Or the poor's distrust of anything proposed by the rich and powerful (a distrust that is always proportionate to the mutual ignorance between those who feel it and those who inspire it, to the number of the poor, and to the inanity of the laws).

But a person can be protected or kept safe by his class only up to a point.

Ma cos'è mai la storia, diceva spesso don Ferrante, senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.

E quel che è peggio, è che le gride ci sono, stampate, per gastigarli: e non già gride senza costrutto; fatte benissimo [...]. E dice: sia chi si sia, vili e plebi.

unrivaled Master. "The secret society of brotherhood", who were the guardians of the universe were afraid as to what might this monster do if he is not tamed or captured. They used to remain tensed and think about how to get rid of this monster. No plan seemed to work on that monster. He was just

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

Yet weirdly, even as our societies have become more medicalized, our experience of death has turned more remote. Death itself is more horrifying and unthinkable than ever. Serious technologists now truly believe they will be able to cheat the reaper for all eternity by uploading their consciousnesses into the ether.

California has about 40 million people. Since the epidemic began almost five months ago, the state has had about 9,000 deaths from the virus, none in anyone under 18. That's correct: Not one person under the age of 18 has died in the largest American state from Sars-Cov-2. Yet California's economy and society remain crippled.

For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need.

Saint-Simon was aware of the role of class struggle in history. Thus he divided contemporary French society into the industriels and the oisifs—those who worked, and the rich parasites who lived off their labor.

Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world." "Not my world." I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.

There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated.

L'apparence compte, pour la plupart des gens. Telle est la réalité du monde

Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.

London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

In a nation that likes to see itself as forgiving, we are mulishly unforgiving of those who have committed a felony...

Sadly, we are losing the "soul" of our communities, ignoring the danger that when a community (or society) loses its soul, it loses itself.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

They have the intoxicating illusion of personifying the will of the people, which means they assume the people is monolithic. They are Manicheans, dividing the world into two camps: light and darkness, the revolution and its enemies. They despise all traditions, received wisdoms, icons, and superstition. They believe society can be a tabula rasa on which revolution will write.