Quotes About Society

We don't ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?

Fear of dying is human. Fear of aging is cultural.

Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it—every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Two things make smoking a virtuous habit. In the first place, the smoker, by paying billions of pounds in tobacco duty, pretty well pays for the entire hospital service. In the second place, by dying on average five years younger that the non-smoker, the smoker reduces the burden of old age on society as a whole.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Nothing at bottom is real except humanity.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

As sociedades modernas vivem tempos insanos. A serenidade é um artigo de luxo

Si no reconstruimos la educación, las sociedades modernas se volverán un gran hospital psiquiátrico.

El noventa y siete por ciento de las mujeres, en algunas sociedades modernas, no se sienten bellas. Por eso, en cada tienda de ropa y en cada etiqueta, debería haber una leyenda semejante a la advertencia contra el tabaco con frases como ésta: «Toda mujer es bella. La belleza no puede ser estandarizada».

Se a sociedade nos abandona, a solidão é tratável, mas, se nós próprios nos abandonamos, ela é quase incurável.

Educatia restransa trage dupa sine o psihatrie extinsa, caci vom avea tot mai multi bolnavi.

Todo político es un empleado de la sociedad pagado de dinero del contribuyente. Tener éxito es su obligación y no objeto de exaltación. El político que no se considera siervo de la sociedad, sino que se sirve de ella, no es digno del cargo que ocupa

Entre paréntesis te contaré que en cierta ocasión una señorita me preguntó, para un periódico, si en lo que escribo hay algún mensaje. Yo le contesté que sí, que en todo lo que escribo hago llamados a la rebelión y a la revolución, pero desgraciadamente en una forma tan sutil que por lo general mis lectores se vuelven reaccionarios).

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear. With so close a relationship between fear and corruption it is little wonder that in any society where fear is rife corruption in all forms becomes deeply entrenched.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Furthermore, the ACRC will also hold briefing sessions on major policies for foreign entrepreneurs in order that their difficulties can be heard and they can become aware of the improvements made by anti-corruption activities in Korea as well as the will and effort to build a transparent society and a business-friendly environment

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Human nature is the worst possible! Once I lived among ye. From self-decency now I habitate the waste places, a willing outcast; associate of goats, cleaner far, more honest than men.

Empty of cosmos are they who hunger after righteousness. Already are the merciful spent. Extinct are the pure in heart. Governed are the meek and of Heaven earn similar disgust. Your society is a veneered barbarity. Ye are precocious primitives. Where is your success other than through hatred? There is no good understanding in your world.