Quotes and Sayings about Society

Quotes and Sayings about Society

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
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I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
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The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
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We live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.
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Society rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
Is it that we collectively thought Steve Jobs was a great man, even when we knew he made billions off the backs of children? Or maybe it's that it feels like all our heroes are counterfeit. The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with out running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. Or is it that we voted for this? Not with our rigged elections, but with our things, our property, our money. I'm not saying anything new. We all know why we do this, not because "Hunger Games" books makes us happy but because we wanna be sedated. Because it's painful not to pretend, because we're cowards. F*ck society.
Elliot Alderson in Mr. Robot - Season 1 Episode 1

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
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Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
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Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time.
Izaro in Path of Exile
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.
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You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.
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The bare necessities of life will come to you.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.
Odysseus in Troy
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