Quotes About Society

When Harry and Arnold and Billie were born, drugs were freely available throughout the world. You could go to any American pharmacy and buy products made from the same ingredients as heroin and cocaine. The most popular cough mixtures11 in the United States contained opiates, a new soft drink called Coca-Cola was made from the same plant as snortable cocaine, and over in Britain, the classiest department stores sold heroin tins for society women.

This is a common human response to the circumstances in which we all live. This is not something that separates you from the world. It's something, actually, you share with countless others." We need to see "this is not just my personal problem," he said, but "a shared problem—and attributable to the kind of society we live in.

this change has caused another transformation—in how people see the police. "I don't think [people in poor neighborhoods] see the police now as enemies.

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

today's flood of addiction is occurring because our hyperindividualistic, frantic, crisis-ridden society makes most people feel social[ly] or culturally isolated. Chronic isolation causes people to look for relief.

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

I realized that the collapse in reading books is in some ways a symptom of our atrophying attention, and in some ways a cause of it. It's a spiral – as we began to move from books to screens, we started to lose some of the capacity for the deeper reading that comes from books, and that in turn, made us less likely to read books.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

If, indeed, anyone should think that, in the communistic society, man must still remain under some form of compulsion in order to, do what is right, and leave off what is wrong, he had better give up communism at once and abandon all hope for the human race.

When state and government have gone, laws must go. People who speak of 'laws' in a communistic society, think perhaps only of those general rules of sensible and noble conduct which every good man finds it easy to observe. But in that case they use a wrong word. A law is a rule connected with an apparatus to compel obedience. Behind the law stand the court, the sheriff, the police, the hangman, etc., and who wants them? None, we guess.

At all events, in a society, all of whose members are free, and equal in the true sense of the words, there is no other means than free contracts, by which to form combinations or build up relations of any kind. Compulsion by laws of any kind or in any form is absolutely excluded by the very orders of liberty and equality.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair. Most of them labour the greater part of their time for mere subsistence; and the scanty portion of freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every exertion to get rid of it. Oh, the destiny of man!

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!