Quotes About Society

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

The heart of secularism is a functional atheism. Rather than rejecting the idea of God, our culture simply ignores him.

Today, if asked about their religion, people in the center say they're nothing, because that's the cultural thing to say.

Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants

Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Industrial capitalism not only created work, it also created 'leisure' in the modern sense of the term.

Poverty kills far more people than all the wars in history, more people than all the murderers in history, more than all the suicides in history, not only does structural violence kill more people than all the behavioral violence put together, structural violence is also the main cause of behavioral violence

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.

Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!

The function of the Society and of Department 17 is to keep track of all espionage and related acts recorded in literature. In other words, the Department reads spy thrillers and murder mysteries

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.

Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal in the world today. I think that's the real horror of modern life.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

At the root of everything lay the passionate desire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

What people think about God, Jesus Christ, and the Church cannot be separated from their own social and political status in a given society.

By the late 1830s, Indianapolis reformers were boasting of sober Fourth of July celebrations, though some of Fort Wayne's leading citizens, including directors of the branch bank and members of the local temperance society, were carried home drunk on election day in 1836.

I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

The truth that no abrupt change has ever taken place in all the customs of a people, and that it cannot, in the nature of things, take place, is perhaps the most fundamental lesson that history teaches.