Quotes About Society

As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.

In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

A high-quality childhood education program has long lasting benefits on our society as a whole.

I prefer shows like Purushkshetra' on TV, which highlight the values and problems of the society.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

English culture is highly literary-based.

I'm not a Beverly Hills dude.

Wouldn't it be better if we could fix the potholes in the roads and the bridges that are crumbling? Or, wouldn't we all be better off if everybody with diseases and illnesses could be treated so that diseases and illnesses wouldn't spread? Or, wouldn't it be better if all kids were ready for school when they went to kindergarten?

All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea

Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.

But there must be some poor! I said. I suppose there must be, but we never think of such people. When one goes poor, we forget him. That is how we keep rich. We mean to be rich always.

That's right, grannie! And the rich have to look down on the poor. No, my dear. I did not say that. The rich have to be KIND to the poor.

If the Lord were to appear this day in England as once in Palestine, He would not come in the halo of the painters or with that wintry shine of effeminate beauty, of sweet weakness, in which it is their helpless custom to represent Him.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.

For a country run by a woman, Britain was still a nation in awe of its men.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.