Quotes About Society

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Luxury is not a static concept, but it shapes and changes with society. Now somebody who might not have the time to come to one of our boutiques can shop online.

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

As women, we often think we have to be all things to all people, all at the same time. As a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, I definitely feel the pressure to perform well in all areas.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Our Times, a Brief History: As televisions became flatter, People became rounder.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained with that in view.

Stratton, of course, had the advantage: Olive knew he controlled the book's production and understood that too much sympathy for the devil would reflect badly on her, reducing her chances of "resuming her position in society," as the Daily Alta had put it. Olive was again a captive—this time of her ghostwriter.

Je sais que ce ne sont pas les vêtements qui font les femmes plus ou moins belles ni les soins de beauté, ni les prix des onguents, ni la rareté, le prix des atours. Je sais que le problème est ailleurs. Je ne sais pas où il est.

It's here we are at the heart of our common fate, the fact that all three of us are our mother's children, the children of a candid creature murdered by society. We're on the side of the society which has reduced her to despair. Because of what's been done to our mother, so amiable, so trusting, we hate life, we hate ourselves.

I already know a thing or two. I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction or costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

We're united in a fundamental shame at having to live. It's here we are at the heart of our common fate, the fact that all three of us are our mother's children, the children of a candid creature murdered by society. We're on the side of the society which has reduced her to despair. Because of what's been done to our mother, so amiable, so trusting, we hate life, we hate ourselves.

Si Ter a vécu il a dû être de ce côté de la société où l'argent est facile, où l'idée est courte, où le mystique du chef tient lieu d'idéologie et justifie le crime.