Quotes About Society

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.

Modern society is based on a modern idea: get the work done by replaceable cogs, by individuals programmed to do what they're told, follow instructions and work cheap. The attraction of this system is evident by how easily ordinary organizations replace ordinary employees, and how eagerly schools indoctrinate their students.

Where does the scarcity come from? It comes from the hurdles that the markets and our society set up. It comes from the fact that most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top. That's the way it's supposed to be. The system depends on it.

Marketing, more than a lake or a forest, is the landscape of our modern lives.

We've been trained to believe that mediocre obedience is a genetic fact for most of the population, but it's interesting to note that this trait doesn't show up until after a few years of schooling.

Normalization creates culture, and culture drives our choices, which leads to more normalization.

We've gone from all of us being everyone to all of us being no one.

It should be called "a culture" or "this culture," because there is no universal culture, no "us" that defines all of us.

Los mitos y los sueños proceden del mismo lugar... Un mito es el sueño de una sociedad.» Joseph Campbell

For me, marketing works for society when the marketer and consumer are both aware of whats happening and are both satisfied with the ultimate outcome.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.

Setelah menjadi ibu rumah tangga, Kim Ji-yeong sering merasa bahwa masih ada dualisme dalam pendapat orang-orang tentang ibu rumah tangga. Kadang-kadang mereka meringankan situasi dengan berkata bahwa menjadi ibu rumah tangga sama dengan bersantai-santai saja di rumah. Kadang-kadang mereka justru menganggap menjadi ibu rumah tangga adalah pekerjaan yang paling penting di dunia. Karena apabila sesuatu sudah diberi harga, seseorang harus membayarnya.

You prefer thieving to honest work?" "Honest work? How much do you pay your maids annually? Six pounds? Eight? I can make that in a month—in a night, if all goes well. I could make more than that as a beggar. Why do you think so many take to the streets, begging? Because honest work is hardly honest when the only one profiting is the rich man who owns the workplace." She was right. Dane knew it, and he hated to accept

Then she would eat what she liked, wear what she liked, and no one would tell her she had the body of a strumpet and had better take care not to look like one. She almost laughed. Some strumpet she was, considering she spent most of her evenings standing or sitting by a wall while other ladies danced or mingled.

Despite all of the social advances in women's rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

Policemen and criminals were not so very much different.  So said Grand-père Filepe.  Certainly, they tended to know the same people, to drink in the same places, to roam the same streets at very nearly the same hours.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.