Quotes About Society

To a degree that can scarcely be imagined today, the bomb became a common mode of American political expression. In 1972, there were 1,962 actual and attempted bombings in the United States, with twenty-five people killed; in 1973, 1,955 bombings, with twenty-two killed; in 1974, 2,044 bombings, with twenty-four killed. The

He saw the Constitution as the vehicle to keep ecumenical passions in check.

called, in her era, the generation gap.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Now, I'm not saying that we don't need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

I principi morali non provengono dallo Stato e della società. La moralità riguarda questioni più serie che valutano i nostri pensieri, parole e azioni paragonandoli ai principi universali che sono validi a prescindere da tempo e luogo.

I am an anarchist in my personal life ... but I don't feel we have evolved far enough as a species to make anarchy work in society itself. We still need government to transfer the wealth from those who have too much to those who have too little, to make sure important projects get done, and keep territorial humans from screwing over and killing each other.

Ironically, we practically have to be sainted to get through the adoption process, but any fool can spawn and have a baby, tra la la.

A homeless man clarified this once: "You know? We've lost so many things: dignity, security, our marriages, our jobs. But one thing we all miss is kids." A tighter safety net exists around homeless children; society won't stand for their vagrancy so they are whisked into foster care leaving parents on the streets. "But you guys always bring your kids down here, and it makes us happy. It's a bright spot in our dark lives.

I marvel at how out of place simple, humble Jesus would be in today's American churches.

Excess has impaired perspective in America.

When you were born you didn't know that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it.

When it comes to having sex and making money, you're supposed to know what you're doing and be all great at it, but nobody teaches you anything about it

Kinder, Kirche, Küche: children, church, kitchen; this is what all German girls hope for;

Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex -- ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.

his deeply ingrained belief that the rich should repay their debt to society. Throughout his life, Alfred Loomis would feel that moneymaking alone was not a satisfactory existence.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

Beth knew in that instant that she was not a true lady, and never would be. A true lady would have fallen out of her chair in a gentle swoon or screamed down the opera house. Instead, Beth leaned into Ian's touch, liking it.

A woman was not considered related to her own child by the bizarre laws of England. The man's seed contained the whole of the baby, so they said, who nestled inside the woman for most of a year before she bore it. This made the child the father's, not the mother's.