of Society
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. Karl Marx
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which humans communicate than by the content of the communication. Marshall McLuhan
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. Denis Diderot
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. Guy Debord