Society Quotes

I dont believe knowing can save us. What isconstant in history is greed and foolishness and a love o...

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he...

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fa...

I instantly saw something I admired no end. So while he was weighing my envelope, I remarked with en...

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage ...

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television witho...

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home ...

People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society...

Your neighbors are not all sheep. Your political opponents are not all evil or fools. Try talking to...

Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have ...

Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for po...

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other ...

This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like...

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have ...

The police can use violence to say, expel citizens from a public park because they are enforcing dul...

I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that ...

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is ins...

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, ...

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins respo...

London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

This society doesn't work without booze – our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't s...

I would agree with your statement that many of my protagonists are outsiders. I wonder if we all are...

The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Re...

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of Americ...

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces o...

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that ...

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt soci...

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can u...

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given ...

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparen...

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals o...

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is ...

The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and L...

Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If y...

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone wa...

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. ...

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected...

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is...

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

An island, on the other hand, is small. There are fewer species, and the competition for survival ha...

I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and ...

Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudde...

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. ...

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him a...

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - fla...

Society, you're a crazy breed.

I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak...

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; a...

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story ...

It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the s...

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a pa...

The novel should tell the truth, as I see the truth, or as the novelist persuades me to see it. And ...

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repress...

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human bei...

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ...

Religious-liberty protections are one way of achieving civil peace even amid disagreement. The Unite...

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that ...

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that...

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against t...

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of...

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer...

the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards ...

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the quest...

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress i...

Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives...

since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth ...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have...

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of...

It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserve...

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We li...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race...

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and l...

While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there i...

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

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.