Quotes About Society

He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said...

Isn't human nature the most consummate sham & lie that was ever invented?

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.

Si los gatos y los hombres se cruzasen, ganaría mucho la raza humana y perdería mucho la gatuna

Las monarquías, las aristocracias y las religiones se hallan todas basadas en ese enorme defecto de vuestra raza, a saber: la desconfianza que cada cual siente de su convecino, y su deseo, por propia seguridad o comodidad, de hacer buen papel ante los ojos de ese convecino.

There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! Following the Equator

Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so—and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude.

But if Juliet's such a young gal, duke, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe." "No, don't you worry; these country jakes won't ever think of that.

The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get Him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look.

My father was a proudly antisocial man who spent most of his time at a typewriter, reflecting negatively on his neighbors and society, throwing in things like Goddamn it, you've got to be kind. The emphasis was on the Goddamn it. He was proud of the fact that I had no friends

At the time I would have endorsed the radical notions of R. D. Laing that insanity was a sane reaction to an insane society. Leaving the insane society to set up an independent self-sufficient commune seemed like a very sensible noble brave thing to do—plus it figured to be good for my mental health. Had I gone crazy in Boston or New York I would have blamed my culture and society without a second thought. The arguments were all packed, polished, and ready to fly.

There are no people anywhere who don't have some mental illness. It all depends on where you set the bar and how hard you look. What is a myth is that we are mostly mentally well most of the time.

The cost of not caring for the mentally ill dwarfs the cost of caring.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

So many humans. So many colors.

They tell us to "be ourselves," but if you listen closely, there's more to that sentence: ". . . until you make them uncomfortable.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.

Ser modernos es vivir una vida de paradojas y contradicciones.

All media work us over completely.

Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.