Quotes About Society

Don't you know what the police are for, Stevie?  They are there so that them as have nothing shouldn't take anything away from them who have.

The world rests upon the poor . . . .

Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!

Conrad regarded the formation of a representative government in Russia as unfeasible and foresaw a transition from autocracy to dictatorship.

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics

Consider the contrast between the well-bred

The powerful try to frame the discussion in a way that benefits their interests, realizing that, in a democracy, they cannot simply impose their rule on others. In one way or another, they have to "co-opt" the rest of society to advance their agenda. Here

Some U.S. states spend as much on their prisons as they do on their universities.62 Such expenditures are not the hallmarks of a well-performing economy and society. Money that is spent on "security"—protecting lives and property—doesn't add to well-being; it simply prevents things from getting worse.

in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it.

Globalization is the field on which some of our major societal conflicts—including those over basic values—play out. Among the most important of those conflicts is that over the role of government and markets.

aunque la economía de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economía de goteo hacia arriba sí puede funcionar: todo el mundo —incluso los de arriba— podría beneficiarse dando más a los de abajo y a los de en medio.

University of California professor Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, and Stefanie Stantcheva of the MIT Department of Economics, carefully taking into account the incentive effects of higher taxation and the societal benefits of reducing inequality, have estimated that the tax rate at the top should be around 70 percent—what it was before President Reagan started his campaign for the rich.68 But

La desigualdad es una opción, no algo inevitable.

desempleo episódico —a veces masivo, como sucedió en la Gran Depresión— y una contaminación tan nociva en ciertos lugares que el aire era irrespirable fueron solo dos de las «pruebas» más obvias de que los mercados por sí solos no necesariamente funcionan bien.

Tercero, no hay que confundir la riqueza de una nación con la riqueza de determinados individuos en ese país.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado —lo que a veces se denomina predistribución— y la redistribución, los ingresos de que disfrutan los individuos tras los impuestos y pagos.

Al agravar los efectos de la desigualdad de oportunidades educativas, junto con unos impuestos de sucesiones demasiado bajos, Estados Unidos está creando día a día una plutocracia hereditaria.

Cuarto, una sociedad menos dividida, una economía con mayor equidad, funciona mejor.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado

Lograr una sociedad más justa requiere de igualdad de oportunidades, pero a la vez esta requiere de mayor igualdad de ingresos y riqueza.