Quotes About Society

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.

Or maybe when they do the operation - when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else - maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A

I'm sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.

It's wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.

Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation—when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else—maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore." Tally

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes .

You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way.

You weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

She was Tally Youngblood... The girl with a pretty body and a Ugly mind.

everyone in the city is manipulated. The purpose of everything we're taught is to make us afraid of change.

You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way." "Are you sure about that? That you can beat evolution by being smart or interesting?

I am glad, brothers and sisters, that our church is persecuted precisely for its preferential option for the poor and for trying to become incarnate on behalf of he poor. And I want to say to all the people, to rulers, to the rich and powerful: If you do not become poor, if you do not concern yourselves for the poverty of our people, as though they were your own family, you will not be able to save society." —July 15, 1979

Romero was like St. Vincent de Paul—a mass of poor people always followed him around. Of course, with his way of thinking, he always got the rich people to pay alms so that he could give them to the poor. That way the poor could have some relief for their problems and the rich could relieve their consciences.48

Toplumun organize bir ÅŸekilde belli güç odaklar?n?n maddi ç?karlar? uÄŸruna tüketime ve israfa al??t?r?lmas? düzmecesini fark etmeden bir evreden diÄŸerine geçmek oldukça zor görünüyordu.

Bob, markalaÅŸan kalabal?klardan ve toplumun rahat düÅŸkünlüÄŸü ile beslenen ve elini s?cak sudan soÄŸuk suya sokmaya üÅŸenen insanlar? nihayetinde kendisine esir eden teknolojik icatlardan uzak durmay? baÅŸarabilmiÅŸti.

GeliÅŸmiÅŸ Bat? dünyas?n?n, olanaklar? ve ihtiÅŸam?yla çok zengin olduÄŸu zannedilse de çoÄŸu zaman insan kalbindeki güzellikleri öldürür.

Amerika'da yaÅŸlanmak bir kad?n için zor bir durum; erkek içinse kad?n?n yaÅŸlanmay? durdurmak için neler yapabileceÄŸini izlemek zor.

Seni din, cinsellik ve TV ile aptallaÅŸt?r?rlar ki, Sen de kendini ak?ll?, s?n?fs?z ve özgür san?rs?n.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.

The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to the collective good.

How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice? How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage? Those