Quotes About Society

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.

All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.

Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.