Quotes About Society

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.

Things have changed: now all one must do to keep society's members from caring its prisoners are abused is to question the content of their character.

It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.

La cultura de masas no ofrece a sus clientes una catarsis emocional ni tampoco una experiencia estética, porque estas cosas requieren esfuerzo. La cultura de masas es, en la mejor de las hipótesis, un reflejo vulgarizado de la Alta Cultura y, en el peor, un íncubo moral, un Kulturkatzenjammer

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Marriage is ridiculous.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.