Quotes About Society

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

Todos aplaudimos, con asombrosa deshonestidad colectiva.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

Y sin duda la violencia seguirá existiendo hasta cuando nuestras naciones alcancen una democracia verosímil y hagan realidad los supuestos mínimos de igualdad que pregonan sus leyes. La

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

Colombia es hoy un país donde los pobres no pueden comer, la clase media no puede comprar y los ricos no pueden dormir.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Like any crowd in a democracy they were looking for someone to vent their anger on

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.