Quotes About Society

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.