Quotes About Society

If we want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica from happening... that starts with regulating big tech beyond just data protection issues, but also looking at whether or not we want as a society to tolerate manipulative design.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.