Quotes About Society

Matter of fact, the only certainty driving the economy is the certainty that boredom at faster and faster rates is inevitable.

The rancor against Europe in American mass public opinion is of a completely different magnitude from anti-Americanism in Europe. In American politics and society, Europe is—if anything—a sporadic and insignificant element of the public discourse.

But does the large presence of guns in America and their relative paucity in Europe render the former more democratic than the latter? Does the fact that some American states, such as New York and Massachusetts, have much tougher gun laws than France make them more complete democratic polities?

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...

Literature is, as Salman Rushdie has observed, 'the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way' (Rushdie 1990, 16).

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes penned the majority opinion, which included these immortal words: It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.… Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

Amazing that Americans can obtain so much mass, approximate stuff of two or three people in Beijing.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

An alternative modernity worthy of the name would recover the mediating power of ethics and aesthetics. This would be accomplished not by a return to blind traditionalism but through the democratization of technically mediated institutions. Power

If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.

My answer is that I've found it an absorbing example of how a society can cling to policies and practices that serve no rational purpose. They persist because they become embedded, usually bolstered by those who benefit. Nor are the issues entirely academic. Making mathematics a barrier ends up suppressing opportunities, stifling creativity, and denying society a wealth of varied talents.

Colleges should be helping to build the next generation's future, not mortgaging it.

Have citizenship somewhere that does not tax income earned outside the country. This was the personal safe haven. Have businesses and investments in stable, low- or no-tax countries. These are called the business havens. Live as a tourist in countries that support your values, rather than society's. These countries are the lifestyle havens, or 'playgrounds.

I just feel it's ruined my life. It drains me, you know, it's like having a tumor, or a parasite! If I were straight I'd get married and that would be it. But being gay, I waste so much time imagining! I hate the lying to my family, and I know I'll never be any of the things they expect of me," he said, "because it's like having cancer but you can't tell them, that's what a secret vice is like.

And the story of a boy's love for a boy will never capture the world's heart as the story of a boy's love for a girl.

What, we may well ask, is there left to live for? Why get out of bed? For this dreary round of amusing insincerity? This filthy bourgeois society that the Aristotelians have foisted upon us? No, we may still choose to live like gods, like poets. Which brings us down to dancing. Yes," he said, turning to Malone, "that is all that's left when love has gone.

Americans believe in democracy. But their democracy works such that the divide between rich and poor grows ever wider. In America, the winners control an ever-increasing percentage of the nation's wealth. To be a member of the upper class is to have privileges, among them ensuring that it's someone else's kid who is getting shot at in Iraq or Afghanistan. These

One cannot understand a political "system" detached from its societal context