Societal Influence Quotes

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Law cannot stand apart from the social changes around it.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.