Quotes About Society

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

To put it crudely, in cortical democracies citizens reason together; in limbic democracies they feel together.

Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity

we continually consult our smartphones as a kind of substitute pair of eyes upon us.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society

For instance, new forms of media have enhanced the age-old ability of politicians and others to play on our emotions, in ever subtler and more sophisticated ways. Advertisers bombard us with highly effective subliminal messages.

People who wear their hearts on their sleeves out in society are tiresome and embarrassing. Their sincerity notwithstanding, it is hard to take them seriously.

See into the Spirit of the Times A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No te dejes engañar por la reprobación superficial que tu actitud de dandy puede provocar. Aun si la sociedad propala su desconfianza de la androginia (en la teología cristiana Satanás suele representarse como andrógino), con eso no hace otra cosa que esconder su fascinación por ella; lo más seductor es con frecuencia lo más reprimido.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. —Eric Hoffer

About the only thing that constant human contact cannot facilitate is thought. The weight of society's pressure to conform, and the lack of distance from other people, can make it impossible to think clearly about what is going on around you.

Since power is a human creation, it is inevitably increased by contact with other people.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.... LORD CHESTERFIELD, 1694-1773

Cartoons are data. If people find them funny, that tells us something about the world.

I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives but that progress in the law may never be made at the price of morally guilty lives.

Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;

La ley es tan cara! -comentó Clodio con una sonrisa-. El pobre Catilina ha tenido que vender las reliquias de la familia para poder estar seguro de la justicia. Realmente, es un escándalo. No sé cómo se las arregla la gente.

Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.

old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs.

In the United Kingdom – that godless isle of apostasy

normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes".

something they call the american dream sure we still believe in it i guess an earth man in the tavern said irregardless of the some times night mare facts we always try to double talk our way around and its okay the dreams okay and means whats good could be a damn sight better means every body in the good old u s a should have the chance to get ahead or at least should have three squares a day as for myself i do okay

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as bad luck.