Quotes About Society

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows

How do you take a medium seriously when it is so laced with high decibel reminders to run right out to your supermarket, your drug store, your friendly car dealer, your favorite department store and buy.... That's the twentieth century marching song — buy!

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people', and the origin of the modern term republic.

the world's first functioning democracy is usually said to have been created in Athens during the years 508–507 BCE.

In the minds of the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of the citizen that defined the state, rather than the other way round.

Every polis had its own constitution, and every constitution was different in points of detail.

respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

One ethnos that never did adopt the polis system was Macedonia.

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

res publica, literally 'the thing belonging to the people'

Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.

Neoliberalism is a panoply of cultural and political-economic practices that sets marketized competition at the center of social life – even as the sole ruler of social life. It aims to create a society that does not merely include markets but is based on the market and where there are, right down to the dirt under the fingernails of flesh-and-blood individuals, only agonizing private enterprises

El crimen pasional es mexicano de nacimiento.

creía o decía creer que detrás de los libros, los objetos que llamamos libros, había un espíritu de clase.

Aparentemente, quiere compensar los déficits que produce la austeridad con altas dosis de demagogia y moralina.

Yo creo que la democracia está en peligro, pero no ha muerto. La situación me recuerda ese famoso dicho, según el cual perder unas elecciones es normal en una democracia: lo malo es perder la democracia en unas elecciones. Y eso es justamente lo que podría pasar en las próximas elecciones de 2021.

Podemos observar tendencias posdemocráticas en el Brasil de Jair Bolsonaro, la Hungría de Viktor Orbán, la India de Narendra Modi y, sin duda, también en el México de López Obrador.

Lo ocurrido en varios países muestra que la democracia puede engendrar monstruos que acaben con ella.

Los perfiles ideológicos se han desdibujado y en su lugar predomina una lucha de la inteligencia contra la estupidez.

La identidad nacional que preconiza el régimen es una mezcla de moralina reaccionaria y de folklore indigenista mal digerido.

El futuro del país es brumoso y la oscuridad se expande en los campos de la cultura y la ciencia. La desmodernidad se cuela por todos los poros del Estado.

Hay una situación de emergencia, una amenaza que podría ser devastadora para el sistema democrático.

Es la cultura responsable de la violencia y la corrupción que dominan a los hombres? ¿O hay un mal congénito impreso en la naturaleza misma del hombre?