The Society Quotes

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

You're only young once. That is all society can stand.

The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist.

Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.

Society sucks. It should not matter what others think, if we are fine with it. Still we both have to concern ourselves with what others might see and think.

and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me

If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze

We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

Look out!! Ha! Now you've done it! Now you've broken a lamp, and you've got no one to blame it on but yourself!""Maybe I could blame it on society!

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.

I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

[N]ew technology enables new kinds of group-forming.

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

I always think the opening moments of a party are the hardest, before everyone has had enough to drink.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

So, wonder! I also wonder about you, " said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.

it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

we've reached utopia and it sucks

[about a hat] You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

No killing intention in a society of eternity.

[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it’s problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

In an evil society a villain is the hero, because only the villain can speak the truth.