Quotes About Society

Even if the law still existed, there wasn't going to be anyone around to enforce it.

Someone enjoying a good perve, no doubt. Well, and why not? There wasn't much else to enjoy, these days.

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.

Peace cannot he imposed by politicians or Churches. Peace has to grow within each person if it is to endure. Our society can only be healed when each person in it is healed.

One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.

Tis a thankless world

Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear.

Souvenons-nous de ce temps, pas révolu, où toute explosion de violence était considérée comme une contre-violence, une réponse à la violence exercée plus ou moins ouvertement par l'État, par la société, les institutions, l'ordre établi. La folie des soeurs Papin, toute folie peut-être, serait-elle la forme extrême et désespérée de la révolte?

She was the living effigy of everything we will never be and, in every sense of the word, she was the retard that I was and that I wasn't, she was my vanishing, wasted talent, and I was the price society paid so that I could become what she couldn't. And this was exactly what I was trying to love; what this little girl, this girl of wire, made it known she could never be; everthing that had been, or that would be no matter who we were, borne away from each of us.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

so slow is moral progress. True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and other marvellous means of breaking our bones; but our morality is not one rung the higher for it all. One would even say that, the farther we proceed in our conquest of matter, the more our morality recedes. The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn.

Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.

The unsolved-crime rate in Mexico is well north of 90 percent. The costumed existence of la policía provides the necessary counterillusion to the fact of the cartel's actual impunity.

Le développement de l'agriculture est très récent à l'échelle de l'évolution humaine : moins de 10 000 ans, et souvent seulement 5 000 ou 6 000 ans, sont loin d'être suffisants pour une évolution biologique significative.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.