Quotes About Society

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society.

Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

If governments encourage people to become more spiritual there will be a reduction in healthcare costs.

Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

The church potential is measured by their society impact.

Why is it "in" to be a christian, but "out" to live a holy life?

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, My little computer said such a funny thing this morning. ~ Alan Turing

Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

La idea de crear una sociedad pacífica por medio de un conflicto armado parecía estar irremediablemente condenada al fracaso por su misma contradicción.