Quotes About Society

there's never any great risk as long as you have money." "Oh, shame! What a shocking speech!" "Money pads the edges of things," said Miss Schlegel. "God help those who have none.

The problem holding everything up thus far is that Homo sapiens is an innately dysfunctional species. We are hampered by the Paleolithic Curse: genetic adaptations that worked very well for millions of years of hunter-gatherer existence but are increasingly a hindrance in a globally urban and technoscientific society. We seem unable to stabilize either economic policies or the means of governance higher than the level of a village.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both." – Milton Friedman, Free to Choose

Nowhere is the gap between rich and poor wider, nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer, than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate." – Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, Chapter 5

When we woke up to the realization that we were independent and that independence meant having a culture that we could call our own, we discovered that all we had that might be termed indigenous or native was what had been created or reassembled and maintained here by those at the bottom of the economic ladder.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

Prominent magazine editor and opinion shaper Albert Shaw noted that bad roads "are so disastrously expensive that only a very rich country, like the United States, can afford them.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

What is a communist? One who hath yearningsFor equal division of unequal earnings.

Feeling nothing was now a badge of honour.

ve kahin, "elektrik direklerini dikin," dedi, "zaman? gelince, çarm?ha gerilecek ?ehrin bütün suçlular?!" i?te bu kadar çok elektrik dire?i, bu yüzden vard?...

This new type of entertainment created a new kind of human an audience not necessarily entertained but definitely mesmerized by immorality who over time became almost addicted to witnessing cruelty.

Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.

I couldn't help but wonder: are we pushing the idea of carnival too far, and turning everything into entertainment?

This is almost childish." one might think. "It seems infantile" And it is. That's why, first and foremost, such leaders need to infantilise the people.

our eagerness to understand people's desire to be slaves has had us glued to our smartphones and computer screens seeking answers, and the process has become so time consuming and so fulfilling that we have felt as if things are not actually happening to us.

A new generation that will hold on to its religion and grudges was being built, just as president ErdoÄŸan had promised years ago.

Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.

Chasing Around Woman is not considered manly among Italins, It's a sign of weak character

What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

W]e are in a new age in America today. It is an age in which the nuances of brown, yellow, and red are as important, if not more so, than black and white.