Quotes About Society

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

All laws, indeed, are made for the poor; the rich observe them more in their breach.

He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.

Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.

The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.

The basic function of law is to restrain (Rom. 13:1-4) not to regenerate, and when the function of the law is changed from the restraint of evil to the regeneration of man and society, then law itself begins to break down, because an impossible burden is being placed upon it...Only as we return to a Biblical foundation for law shall we again have a return to justice and order under law.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

four classes of people. They have been classified

Chanakya wanted to establish a society which laid greater stress on spiritual satisfaction rather than on physical pleasures. According to him, for the development of inner strength and character, spiritual development was necessary.

11.13 Vedas specify four classes of people. They have been classified based on their profession rather than on their descent or caste.

The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.

The goal of society constituted in this way is consequently the common good, which is superior to the proper good of each individual, despite what individualism claims. The common good, nevertheless, ought not to absorb the proper good as communism claims. "The common good of the multitude is greater and more divine than that of an individual" (De Regno, Ch. IX). It is peace, the tranquility of order in the city or the nation.

je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.

Le macchine, al presente, sono come la politica di una volta. Non ci si può occupare di loro, ma sono loro che si occupano di voi.

It is difficult to predict the future of an economy in which it takes more brains to figure out the tax on our income than it does to earn it.

There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.

The peasantry, when it wishes to escape peasantry, has always, for centuries, across all borders, escaped into a uniform.

You had to get another degree in order to become a productive member of an evil society.

There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go.

Of course I received various permutations of the "Who will want to marry you if you read so much?" lecture, but I also had to endure the chilly "Don't try to be so different from normal people." Different from normal people? When I first heard that, I was sorely offended. I thought every person should live for art, not just me, and furthermore, why would I want to be normal? Why would I want to be stupid like everyone else?

am alone. It is a choice I've made, yet it is also a choice made with few other options available. Beiruti society wasn't fond of divorced, childless women in those days. Still, I made my bed—a simple, comfortable, and adequate bed, I might add.

I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.