Quotes About Society

All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

I've often reflected upon such black veteran numbers men as West Indian Archie. If they had lived in another kind of society, their exceptional mathematical talents might have been better used. But they were black.

Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did: Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.

a man unreservedly committed to the cause of liberating the black man in American society rather than integrating the black man into that society.

I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.

I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when—soon now, in prison—I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.

Mr. Muhammad sent me a typed reply. It had an all but electrical effect upon me to see the signature of the "Messenger of Allah." After he welcomed me into the "true knowledge," he gave me something to think about. The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society's crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals.

Today, in many ways the black man sees the collective white man in America better than that white man can see himself.

I]t's a reaction that was produced by the society; and I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops[.]

He told me that all whites knew they were devils—"especially Masons.

my mother in there was a statistic that didn't have to be, that existed because of a society's failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion.

We both agreed that American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings.

This admittedly simplified description of society as an assemblage of assemblages should serve as a reminder of how misleading it is to view human history as comprising a single temporal flow. Indeed, given that even at the largest scales (territorial states, world-economies) we never reach a point at which we may coherently speak of 'society as a whole', the very term 'society' should be regarded as a convenient expression lacking a referent.

para bem conhecer o caráter do povo, é preciso ser príncipe e, para bem entender o do príncipe, é preciso ser do povo.

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?

rewilding is all about being nice, kind, compassionate, empathic, and harnessing our inborn goodness and optimism. We must all work together at this. It's about time we focus on the good side of human and animal nature. ... nature offers many lessons for kinder society. Blood shouldn't sell.

In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.

Der Patriotismus ist noch nichts Negatives – und doch macht er mich oft mißtrauisch. Denn nur ein Schritt trennt ihn vom Nationalismus, und es ist wiederum bloß ein Schritt, der zwischen dem Nationalismus und dem Chauvinismus liegt. Mir gefällt Nietzsches Diktum, man solle Völker weder lieben noch hassen.

Don't you think it was a little selfish to travel around the world looking for yourself?" She always answered, "You know what? I actually think it would have been a little selfish to spend the rest of my life in narcissistic, depressive, anxious misery. That person adds nothing to society, adds nothing to any room that she enters, adds nothing to the people whom she touches. The best community service I can possibly offer the world is to stay healthy and sane.

Cuanto más depravado se vuelve un pueblo, más se indigna públicamente contra la inmoralidad.

Il bene pubblico è la legge suprema

recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from "good families.