4,426 Quotes About Society

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…

He gave a sigh and mused that entire countries were on the verge of collapse, that the names of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were, finance, politics, religion and the depletion of resources, and they were whipping their horses as hard as they could, but the ant farm continued to dance on a volcano and be fascinated by things as insignificant as football.

I gruppi di potere sono in grado di difendersi e secondo gli standard dei media il fatto che la loro posizione e i loro diritti vengano minacciati costituisce scandalo. Al contrario, finché illegalità e violazione dei principi democratici colpiscono gruppi marginali [...] l'opposizione dei media è completamente assente.

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

Le jeu dechec, sige de Franske, n'est pas assez jeu: Det er, Skakspill og andre af samme Betydelse, er ikke Spill, men et Studium. Saadant kand man presentere dem, som intet have at bestille, og som af Ørkesløshed kand frygte for Hiernens Forrustelse, men ikke arbeydsomme Folk, der udi Spill og Selskab søge Recreation.

They will say you're useless, if they can't use you.

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.