Quotes About Society

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Adults are the real monsters.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Music on the radio. When I went in, the big bands were just getting up a good head of steam. Now every song sounds like it's about fucking.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

men were not so much gifted with penises as cursed with them.

There's precious little reform in the human race.

There aren't just 2 kinds of people, good and bad, like I thought when I was a kid who got most of his ideas on how people act from TV. There are 3. The third type of people go along to get along, like Deputy F.W.S. Malkin told me to do. Those are the most people in the world and I think they are gray people. They will not hurt you (at least on purpose) but they won't help you much, either. They will say do what you want and God help you.

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-the-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.