Quotes About Society

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing . . . religion, art, family . . . it has taken over everything . . . there is no escape from it . . .

The difference, Gopal told the Rationalists, between the Science Association and their own society was that they did not consider science alone, something people pursued in the seclusion of laboratories, important in itself. He himself was studying not science but English literature. Their aim was the application of rational principles to everything around them—to their own lives, to society, to religion, to history. It didn't matter what.

is morbid individualism that turns crises into tragedies.

after two thousand years we've established a state so as to have someone to steal from.

En el mundo hay una profunda, constante e irremediable injusticia erótica. Esa injusticia convierte en ridículos e irrisorios todos nuestros incansables esfuerzos por construir una sociedad más igualitaria.

men can't help themselves, that's just the way they are made, but women in her view are actually not much better, and that's why love is something that one way or another always turns out badly.

Women who are attacked phone a hotline for advice. Don't report a rape, the women are told. Call it indecent exposure. A guy who takes it out and doesn't do anything with it--cops figure that guys is sick.

A little into it they fucked for a kid. Squeezed one out. Couple years later fucked for another. Now she's here. One more broad in a big-ass truck with the ring, the two kids, the latest cell phone.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.

No privacy left. No manners.

You are a real hermaphrodite, Mafouka,' I said. 'That is what our age is supposed to have produced because the tension between the masculine and the feminine has broken down, people are mostly half of one and half of the other. But I have never seen it before—actually, physically. It must make you very unhappy.

Then the anger about blaming society for the situation in which we find ourselves — blaming, say, man for the situation in which woman finds herself. I don't believe in that because I believe very much our double responsibility, that we engage ourselves in destructive relationships, that we have a part of the responsibility, unconsciously.

I think now that at the root of all my writing lies the fact that very early in life I lost the desire to participate with others on the basis laid down by society. All I have been doing, possibly, in my work, is to protest and explain wherein I'm different.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

Henry:] Was thinking last night apropos of "Mile. Claude" and Germaine that it was a pity that women could not enjoy gigolos in the same way as men enjoy a whore.

It is the men who take the women to the circus, and they go to hear the men laugh!