Quotes About Society

As for the general public, we tend to judge the "other woman" far more harshly than the cheating husband.

These are not simply naive, lonely, desperate women who'll take love in whatever form they can get it. In fact, they are pragmatic about their reasons for choosing to not only live with a secret but be a secret.

The president can say we're a country at war all he wants. We're not. The military is at war. And the military families are at war. Everybody else is shopping….

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

Don't you find it odd...that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

visto che il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

Grandma Ponder said, Show me a man wears a diamond ring, and I'll show you a wife beater.

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

Psihoz? colectiv?, domnule Dudard, psihoz? colectiv?! Ca ?i religia, care-i opiumul popoarelor!

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Pofta de a ucide b?trani.B?tranii sunt scîrboÈ™i.Tinerii sunt mediocrii È™i nerozi.Tinerii mi-au fost întodeauna nesuferiÈ›i,mai ales cand eram tan?r.Curtea pe care maeÈ™trii de gandire,umbl? dup? clientel?,o fac tineretului,e unul din lucrurile cele mai înjositoare din cate cunosc.Cat? lips? de demnitate,ce laÈ™itate,ce nonsens!

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. It's

Il y a une chose que je ne comprends pas. Pourquoi à la rubrique de l'état civil, dans le journal, donne-t-on toujours l'âge des personnes décédées et jamais celui des nouveaux-né? C'est un non-sens.

C'est pour cela que les jeunes se suicident ou qu'on les tue. Ainsi on les cloue dans leur jeunesse pour toujours, dans les panoplies de l'éternité.

AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . . MADELEINE: I'm not your love . . . AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . . MADELEINE: Well, I'm a modern slave, then!

Your father goes out. He meets his friends in barrooms or at the Club. You and Jamie have the boys you know. You go out. But I'm alone. I've always been alone.

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

I mean supposing we—the self-satisfied, successful members of society—are responsible for the injustice visited upon the heads of our less fortunate "brothers-in­Christ" because of our shameful indifference to it. We see misery all around us and we do not care. We do nothing to prevent it. Are we not then, in part at least, responsible for it? Have you ever thought of that?

If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity. Contributions to this bank are donations to those who cannot or will not be protected by their own immunity. This is the principle of herd immunity, and it is through herd immunity that mass vaccination becomes far more effective than individual vaccination.

However we choose to think of the social body, we are each other's environment. Immunity is a shared space--a garden we tend together.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.