Quotes About Society

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government.

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.

I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.