Quotes About Society

The false sense of superiority that segregation fosters in whites contributes to their rejection of policies to integrate American society

Well, you know, it ain't nothin' out of the ordinary happened to Olive and me. Happens hundreds of times every day. But we're still livin' in the dark ages, I guess. Cain't just go to a doctor and say you want an abortion. Be ten thousand people that's got nothin' better to do than trying to run everybody else's lives, and they'd put you in jail, or shoot you or somethin'.

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Günümüzde de res publica'ya kat?l?m art?k bir oluruna b?rakma sorunudur ve bu kamusal yaÅŸam?n ÅŸehir gibi mekanlar? da bir bozulma sürecine girmiÅŸtir.

Güçlü bir kamu yaÅŸam?n?n a??nmas?, içtenlikle ilgi duyulan mahrem iliÅŸkileri deforme etmektedir.

The rise of the bourgeoisie" is a hackneyed phrase, so much so that one historian has been moved to comment that the only historical constant is that the middle classes are always everywhere rising.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insan?n karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸmesini engelleyen ç?lg?n zaman deneyimi aras?nda bir çat??ma yaratt?.

Kurumlarda iÅŸleyen veya bireyin yaÅŸad??? zaman, eskinin demir kafesinden kurtulmuÅŸ olsa da, yukar?dan aÅŸa??ya iÅŸleyen yeni bir denetime ve gözetime tabidir. EsnekliÄŸin zaman? yeni bir iktidar?n zaman?d?r. Esneklik düzensizlik yarat?r, ancak s?n?rlamalardan kurtulmam?z? saÄŸlamaz.

Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".

I'm sorry to tell you that the purity of scientific truth rarely cuts through contemporary social attitudes.

It is caused, in its entirety, by a lifetime of bearing first-hand witness to, on behalf of everyone – courts, relatives, public, society – man's inhumanity to man. The result of this diagnosis? The summer of 2016 off work. Two cures: talking and pharmaceutical. And this book.

You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you'll never even be indicted. But if you don't pay your income tax, Grofield, you will go to jail.

But in practice there is no clear reason why a division of labour in society should necessarily imply a division of moral behaviour as well.

Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change.

there be different and better ways of producing knowledge and making it available in society, methods that might not directly involve the traditional professions at all?

Brillat-Savarin and Symons were right to say that we have tamed nature with fire. We should indeed pin our humanity on cooks.

Men need their personal cooks because the guarantee of an evening meal frees them to spend the day doing what they want, and allows them to entertain other men. They can find opportunities for sexual interactions more easily than they can find a food provider.

Another version of the same formula applied to many Tiwi marriages. In this highly polygynous culture, old men took most of the young wives, so more than 90 percent of men's first marriages were to widows much older than themselves, sometimes as old as sixty. The old wives might have been past child-bearing age and physically unattractive, but young men delighted in the marriages because they were then fed.

Before we can talk or walk, we are programmed to recognize norm violators - those whose antisocial behavior classifies them as "bad".

Human competitiveness still has elements of the primate system of achieving status by individual combat.

However, being moral can include not only acts of kindness but also deeds of conformity and violence.

We know that over time society sometimes improves in quality, and sometimes decays. What we cannot know is which direction our descendants will take.

Every society has to find its own protection. To avert episodes of violence we should constantly remind ourselves of how easily a complex social organization can decay, and how hard it is to construct.

The control of fire and the practice of cooking are human universals.