Quotes About Society

You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

The strength of a country derives from the educational levels of the individuals in that nation.

Curing cancer affects good cells in short run too but makes a life flourish in long term. Curing corruption affects good people in short run too but makes a nation flourish in long term.

Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law.

Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Normalness leads to sadness.

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

If all the people who were called "crazy" started acting "normal", we'd probably still be living in caves.

A closed conforming society is a sick society waiting to die from stagnation and inner illness. Only openness is the treatment.

A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts.

Beliefs can be dangerous viruses that can infect and affect a whole society, a country, and even a whole world.

A formal education will teach you how to conform with society. Self-education will teach you how to get out of conformity so that you can fill your life with adventure and beauty.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.