Quotes About Society

Half of what is labeled 'crime' is something else. You be your own judge. Your own boss. The world is broken and you won't fix it by obeying the broken rules.

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.

What a remarkable conceit civilization is

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.

The 95 percent on the failure curve tend to accept the heroes society plants in front of them: film stars (America's version of royalty), rock stars, sports stars.

It's a familiar moment to students of history: the late stage of empire, hairline fractures shooting through the foundations of society. They're like cracks in the sidewalk; by the time you see them, the damage has already been done.

This was what most people wanted: to be close to but not part of. They didn't want the fearful unknown of a 'pristine wilderness.' They didn't want a soulless artificial life, either.

Once, it was different. Once, people had homes and parents and went to schools. Cities existed within countries and those countries had leaders. Travel could be for adventure or recreation, not survival. But by the time I was grown up, the wider context was a sick joke. Incredible, how a slip could become a freefall and a freefall could become a hell where we lived on as ghosts in a haunted world.

I think this is an asylum. But so is the rest of the world.

I never much understood the point of the world of men. How they fed off each other. How they motivated themselves. I mean, I got the purpose, but I navigated that world the way an astronaut would an alien landscape. Trying not to breathe the same air. Which was impossible, of course.

He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era.

Call them robbers and cutthroats--were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.

alimentadas solo por el dinero mal habido.

Los hombres no lloran, le repetía su padre. ¿Y por qué los hombres no podían llorar? Alguna vez debía romper las reglas impuestas y con decisión se lanzó sobre su cama y sollozó sobre su almohada de borra.

Professionals and the public were largely unaware of abuse, and no one knew exactly how to deal with the problem when it was identified. Denial is not a defense used only by abused children. Society at large has had a hard time believing that children are abused by parents and that they need protection. You are not alone behind a wall. Your parents, teachers, doctors, and others may have had the same desire to hide and avoid the truth.

A murder shared with many others, which is not only safe and permitted, but indeed recommended, is irresistible to the great majority of men.

Pero hoy la guerra ya no es guerra. Ya no es el hombre quien cuenta, la máquina lo es todo.

Disgust at collective killing is of very recent date and should not be over-estimated. Today everyone takes part in public executions through the newspapers. Like everything else, however, it is more comfortable than it was. We sit peacefully at home and, out of a hundred details, can choose those to linger over which offer a special thrill. We only applaud when everything is over and there is no feeling of guilty connivance to spoil our pleasure.

The touch to which one resigns oneself because all resistance appears hopeless – and particularly so as regards the future – has, in our society, become the arrest . The feel of the hand of authority on his shoulder is usually enough to make a man give himself up without having to be actually seized. He cowers and goes quietly.

Spesso si parla dell'istinto di distruzione della massa, è la sua caratteristica più vistosa, quella che, innegabilmente, si ritrova ovunque nei paesi e nelle civiltà più diverse.

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.