Quotes About Society

As one Edwardian expressed it, Britain enjoyed 'government of the people, for the people, by the best of the people.

facilitating creation and engagement of an online kind of civil society quite literally at their fingertips.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

stockbrokers, secretaries, government functionaries—everybody back then was expected to have some kind of inner life.

This country is so stupid. Only spoiled white people could let something so good get so bad. I

You go around and you do things and you don't know why you do them, she said. And that's the story of your gender writ large.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country.

We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favored to win.

in the bathroom where we Post-Human Services men took our lengthy organic shits, straining to be free of whatever greenery tormented us. On

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.

Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. "You're negative arbing yourself," he used to say.

How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?

I wanted to save them from themselves, from the idiotic consumer culture that was bleeding them softly. I

he would get all intro on me, turn down the community access on his äppärät so that I wouldn't know where the fuck his mind was, and

Together we all looked like we had been plucked from the distant decade of 1980–89 and deposited into this dull, awkward future, a bunch of poorly dressed sinners throwing ourselves at the mercy of Christ, who was always sharp-looking and trim, graceful in pain, kindly in Heaven. I

I don't think it would be apprpriate for a man to call himself a feminist.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball;

If being a cool male model means being this weird and miserable, maybe it isn't so cool, after all. Or maybe I'm just so uncool I don't get

I may have seemed like things quieted down a bit once we all figured out how to farm, because farming begets society and society develops laws, and laws enforce peace in the interest of the greater good. But society is just another kind of tribe and it eventually bumps into a larger one, and there's more violence, only then it's called war.

The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city or empire became there was always another them to go out and kill. And when organized religion really got going... well, there's a fantastic excuse to murder people in bunches.

D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.

No one can violently attack something without taking it seriously in some way. No one attacks belief in Zeus anymore. No one gets emotional over the Flat Earth Society. Yet Christianity calls forth the deepest emotions -- even and especially in the ones who most reject it.

According to the Reformers, each Christian has multiple vocations. We have callings in our work. We have callings in our families. We have callings as citizens in the larger society. And we have callings in the Church.