Quotes About Society

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.

The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.

Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.

I love humanity, it's people I don't like.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.