Society Quotes

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

~ Ka Chinery

The deterioration of individual thought has resulted in a morbidly dependent society that has lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability. Society has devolved into a state of thoughtless stagnancy, accepting the tyrannical laws and deleterious social structures without question or reason. This is the downfall of the human race, and the roadblock to Divinity.

~ Ka Chinery

When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.

~ Margaret Atwood

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

look you, there are only two classes of men, the magnanimous, and the rest; and I have reached an age when one has to take sides, to decide once and for all whom one is going to like and dislike, to stick to the people one likes, and, to make up for the time one has wasted with the others, never to leave them again as long as one lives.

~ Marcel Proust

... she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'People who enjoyed 'picking-up' things, who admired poetry, despised sordid calculations of profit and loss, and nourished ideals of honour and love, she placed in a class by themselves, superior to the rest of humanity.

~ Marcel Proust

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

~ Idries Shah

As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch....The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way.

~ George Orwell

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.

~ Idries Shah

Within two or three years of World War II's end, starvation had been basically eliminated in Japan, and yet the Japanese had continued slaving away as if their lives depend on it. Why? To create a more abundant life? If so, where was the abundance? Where were the luxurious living spaces? Eyesores dominated the scenery wherever you went, and people still crammed themselves into packed commuter trains each morning, submitting to conditions that would be fatal for any other mammal. Apparently what the Japanese wanted wasn't a better life, but more things.

~ Ryū Murakami

The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Our ancestors did great work for humanity. What will we do for the next generations?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

~ Idries Shah

All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the “Promised Land” where the Lordwill lead us to.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is clear from both documentary and archaeological sources that conspicuous display and consumption of wealth was fundamental for an elite male to maintain power and position in society.

~ Sally Crawford

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

~ Barack Obama

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those that cannot protect themselves: Those weakest and most vulnerable among us. This is, to most of us, something that seems to be an obvious statement of fact, and that may be so, but it’s also a forgotten fact. Now, today, the opposite is true. It should shame us all. It shames me. The very fact that the most poor and the most vulnerable in our society are those that are victimised and stamped upon, whereas the most wealthy and the most influential are making more profits and acquiring more assets and wealth than ever before in history, is a damning indictment of what our society has become

~ Paul Howsley

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

~ Thomas Hardy

It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.

~ Hafiz

In order for prisons to truly serve the public, the people who run them would do well to aspire to the words of Thomas Mott Osborne, the storied warden of New York's Sing Sing Prison in the early part of the twentieth century, who vowed, 'We will turn this prison from a scrap heap into a repair shop.

~ Piper Kerman

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

~ Aysha Taryam

If you really want to change society, encourage self appreciation.

~ Réné Gaudette

Stop trying to explore what is different about yourselves and explore the commonality you have instead.

~ Réné Gaudette

Man has rights because they are natural rights. They are grounded in the nature of man: the individual's capacity for conscious choice, the necessity for him to use his mind and energy to adopt goals and values, to find out about the world, to pursue his ends in order to survive and prosper, his capacity and need to communicate and interact with other human beings and to participate in the division of labor.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Society needs to evolve just as our DNA does.

~ Kat Lahr

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.

~ Kat Lahr

Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and ‘causes’ whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right.

~ Idries Shah

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

~ John F. Nash

Our culture treats people with depression is as if there is something wrong with them; a biological imbalance best treated with medication. But if it’s impossible to understand biology outside the context of environment, and there is a frightening increase in male suicide and depression, perhaps we need to take a closer look at the other variable - our environment.

~ Mike Snelle

If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language?

~ Alex Latimer

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

~ Idries Shah

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

~ William Golding

There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card player wins money by outsmarting his antagonist. The businessman makes money by supplying customers with goods they want to acquire.

~ Ludwig Von Mises