Quotes About Society

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

It's hard to escape bullies that come in many shapes and forms. The processed food industry, corrupt religious organizations, and celebrity worship culture are just a few that we deal with in modern times.

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

When I write about working-class people, I do so in ways that reveal them at their absolute, magnificent worst.

American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the gold of the calf.

You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

Social media is the devil. Absolute devil. Oh, my God. It's the worst thing ever.

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!

The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.