Quotes About Society

A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace.

The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

The free social individual can only come into existence with the abolition of the division of labour, and the division of labour is fundamentally identical with the division of society into classes.

Perhaps the strength of American society in 1918 was only the brief by-product of the war spirit. In the next year or so race riots, bombings, and a hysterical red scare would give proof that Americans were not always filled with mutual love and respect, but for that moment in fall 1918, when everyone in the nation had a fever and aching muscles or personally knew someone who had, Americans did by and large act as if they were all, if not brothers and sisters, at least cousins.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

When a community is composed of honest, sober and virtuous people, your forming a bad opinion about anyone of its members, when nothing wicked has been seen of him, is a great injustice to him. On the contrary in a corrupt society to form good opinion of anyone of them and to trust him is to harm yourself.

They racialize without 'race': Thatcher's remarks about 'New Commonwealth immigrants' is one such example.

Whiteness (and blackness) have been historically created, and it is necessary to understand some key insights into the formation of 'whiteness' and 'blackness',

But crucially, the difficulties surrounding racial classification also meant that definitions of black and white remained indeterminate.

This is the paradox of being white and 'seeing white', but being to all intents and purposes 'invisible' or, more appropriately, as Frankenberg, Garner, and other sociologists of 'whiteness' have suggested, 'unmarked'. In Western societies

Colourblind racism asserts that there are no real problems with racism in our society, that challenges stem from individuals rather than our institutions and collective thinking and behavior.

the election of Obama showed that America had moved beyond 'race' into a definitively post-racial era in which now even a black American could be president. The

cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.

It is like democracy is a bottle someone can threaten to smash and do a bit of damage with. It has become a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue. It is the end of dialogue.

Ez egy olyan kor, amikor az emberek mondanak egymásnak dolgokat, és az egészbÅ'l soha nem lesz párbeszéd.

Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.

You can't just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we've never been more dangerous.

He also knows he is and will be being recorded by CCTV cameras on both sides of the station. He knows these are the kinds of cameras that don't know anything, don't show anything beyond surface. He knows that what they do is the stupid new way of knowing everything.

She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact—she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.

Végül is elég kellemes halottnak lenni. Nagyon alulértékelik a modern nyugati világban.