Quotes About Society

She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time - because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it.

Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.

My impressions of contemporary France were mixed. I personally felt that it was quite provincial.

Ako dobra nema u ljudima, ne može ga biti ni u društvu.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' They just use your mind and you never get the credit It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it 9 to 5, yeah they got you where they want you There's a better life, and you dream about it, don't you? It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it And you spend your life puttin' money in his wallet

Buenos Aires puede volver a ser lo que fué, porque la civilización europea es tan {91} fuerte allí, que en despecho de las brutalidades del gobierno se ha de sostener.

La América entera se ha burlado de aquellas famosas fiestas de Buenos Aires y mirádolas como el colmo de la degradación de un pueblo; pero yo no veo en ellas sino un designio político, el más fecundo en resultados.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

Such was the impact of the new medium that by 1967 nine in ten households had a television set. The only homes without one were those suffering from either 'extreme deprivation or self-conscious intellectualism'.16 In

number later put it, 'quids in'. 'I was getting taxis about,' he recalled. 'I mean, a pound would buy you a bloody good night out. You could probably have eight or nine pints of beer and twenty fags and a couple of tanners for the juke box.

By then he would realize that the freedom he had always yearned for and never understood was beyond his or any man's reach, and that all men must yearn for it equally; a freedom from the society of mankind without its absence; a freedom from connection, from fear, from trouble, and above all from the loneliness of being alive. By then he would understand that fulfillment was only temporary, and desire the enemy of death.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

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you do understand we live in Cheapside, on Gracechurch Street. It is truly quite a beautiful residential street, but not a part of town those in high society frequent. Are you sure you do not mind your carriage being seen there?" "Miss

Crockery has been withdrawn from American culture below a certain level.

Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it's good