Quotes About Society

The ancient writer Suetonius tells the story that an inventor around 70 CE displayed to a Roman emperor a machine that could move columns, only to be dismissed with the objection that such labor-saving devices would cause the poor to starve by robbing them of employment.

Not so much a trickle down as a dragging-along.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

On a grander scale, when a society segregates itself, the consequences affect the economy, the emotions, and the ecology. That's one reason why it's easy for pro-lifers to eat factory-raised animals that disrespect everything sacred about creation. And that is why it's easy for rabid environmentalists to hate chainsaws even though they snuggle into a mattress supported by a black walnut bedstead.

I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?

You mean one human is good, but a hundred humans is bad?" "Exactly. One human is just a person. A hundred humans make a society. And societies have kings, and religions and priests, and all these other things serrin completely fail to understand

It's like a letter-writing society. They approach it like poetry. Not all of it is rebellious, some of it is quite beautiful. Just art, from kids who live in a world where they'll likely never see art. At least not officially.

To a civilized man, beyond the simple animal need for food, the greatest necessity is a contact with other men...

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.

An Stelle gut geschriebener, geistreicher Produkte haben wir der Öffentlichkeit eine geistlose Mischung aus Sex, Gewalt und Dummheit präsentiert. Krischnamurti war es wohl, der sinngemäß gesagt hat: "Wenn Künstlern nichts einfällt, sagen sie es mit Sex." - Ein Befund, dem die Musikvideos, Filmhits und TV-Shows nur allzusehr entsprechen.

Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas

Angst is the indulgence of the middle class.

The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

Svenska friskolor måste vara öppna för alla barn, oavsett hur begåvade de är, och därför blir det omöjligt att bygga en skola anpassad för särbegåvningar. Märkligt nog finns det undantag för barn som är särskilt duktiga på idrott och musik. ... I det egalitära Sverige har vi månad så mycket om jämlikheten att vi har struntat i att det krossar dem som inte passar in.

Ne pominji mi gomile šarene! Duh beži od nas kad se javi masa.

Ljudsko pravo prekida pravo naroda, ljudsko pravo tako?er prekida pravo kulture.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

Tristan [Harris] believes that what we are seeing is 'the collective downgrading of humans and the upgrading of machines'. We are becoming less rational, less intelligent, less focused.

This showed that loneliness isn't just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It's a product of the way we live now.

The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day, and then you are being told to blame yourself and to fiddle with your own habits while the world's attention burns.