Society Quotes - Page 11

The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.
Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn't want to be - a disappointment.

Time is ticking, and your online twinkling is limited.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

The time has come, that man should change his ideas to respect the woman and woman should her to trust the man. Now social interactions need a better way to grow up.

You’re one of those kinds of women - those kinds of people I should say - as am I.”
“And what kind of woman is that?” Mary was very curious and excited now.
“A woman who is not satisfied doing only what society says should satisfy her.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [...] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.

Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.