Quotes About Society

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

Civilized life exacts its toll.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.