Quotes About Society

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

In effect, Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization," he said, "they're going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment.

By all accounts, John Frankenheimer was singularly obsessed with The Manchurian Candidate, a film that, according to Daniel O'Brien, the director regarded "as his first truly personal project, feeling that the story made an all too valid point regarding the political manipulation and conditioning of American society.

Do you know why they failed? Because the universe, let alone regular society, does not give a shit about you or your dreams. I don't mean that in a negative way – it's just the cold, boring truth.

Una sociedad se hace grande cuando los hombres viejos plantan árboles cuya sombra nunca verán

society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see'.

More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science.

In the midst of what appears to be a traditional male-power fantasy about war and politics, he serves up a grim, realistic, and harrowing depiction of what happens when women aren't fully empowered in a society. In doing so, by creating such diverse and fully rendered female characters and thrusting them into this grim and bitter world, Martin has created a subversively feminist tale.

Characters who engage in murder, sadistic cruelty, malignant selfishness or narcissism, dishonorable and dishonest acts, and obsessions with relative frivolities such as political intrigue and playing the game of thrones transgress against not just individuals but society itself.

The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.