Quotes About Society

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to spend all his time hewing and digging and fighting.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

I think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.