Quotes About Society

I don't want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What's so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.

The last concept to be added to Bowen theory is that of societal regression. It notes that, periodically, as anxiety begins to run higher in society, regressed behavior can be noted on a massive scale. A hallmark of such an anxious period is the unwillingness of families or other institutions of society (such as the court system) to take responsibility when behavior breaks down.

Triangles are ubiquitous and automatic in emotional systems. They are considered, in Bowen family systems theory, to be the molecule, or basic building block of any system of people—be it the family, an organization, or society itself. The goal is not how to get out of them, however, but rather how to manage oneself in and through them.

I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

Civilization rests on two things, said Hitzig; the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

New Money wore dinner suits, which it called tuxedos, and smoked big cigars from which it removed the band before lighting up—an unthinkable solecism, for

He came of a generation to which any girl, before she is married, is a kind of unexploded bomb.

California sluts. The fact

Da una parte c'è la pressione delle convinzioni nostre e della società, condizionate come sono, dalla necessità e dai tempi in cui viviamo. Dall'altra, c'è l'esortazione del cuore che ci dice: Resta sempre fedele a te stesso. Sopra ogni altra cosa.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

So often in our society, we are encouraged to disregard our fears and to simply "think positive thoughts". This is nothing more than engaging in denial which is not only ineffective, it is unhealthy.

Più una società si allontana dalla verità, più odierà quelli che la dicono»

Llegar a tu último día sabiendo que has vivido la vida que la sociedad te enseñó a desear y no la vida que verdaderamente querías.

A sane person in a world gone crazy has always been considered insane, you know?

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it

leadership isn't just for CEOs, military generals, and people who govern nations. Leadership is for everyone. And in this period of dazzling change in business and society, it really is the single most important discipline required to win.

he had learned for mind control and for erasing the habit of worry that was consuming so many in our complex society.

Play in common society and succeed in the game it sells you but disconnect from it often, so you're never really owned by it. Because the sport the majority is playing is only an illusion—sort of a waking dream—that too many good people are donating the best mornings of their finest days to as they put money over meaning, profits over people, popularity over integrity, being busy over family and achievement over loving the basic miracles of the now.

Lo negativo lo invade todo y en nuestra sociedad muchas personas flotan como barcos sin timón, almas cansadas en busca de un faro que les impida estrellarse contra las rocas de la costa. Tú debes hacer las veces de capitán.

La gran mayoría de nuestro mundo moderno, la que pasa una enorme cantidad de su irremplazable tiempo vital mirando ráfagas de selfis, el desayuno de sus amigos virtuales y videojuegos violentos, tildaría de «locura» esta dedicación a la optimización del conocimiento —