Quotes About Society

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

I love America. It's Americans I can't stand.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.

For the record, there are other visitors, a handful of pleasant-faced, middle-aged women, long-standing friends of my mother, attractive women in the early stages of disrepair, fighting to keep age at bay with facials, compression undergarments, and aggressively fashionable skirts bought off the rack at Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom

Conventions need have no rationale apart from the rationale of having a convention.

Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.

We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It's asking a lot. It's asking for everything.

Our society faces the increasing call to deconstruct its stabilizing traditions to include smaller and smaller numbers of people who do not or will not fit into the categories upon which even our perceptions are based. This is not a good thing. Each person's private trouble cannot be solved by a social revolution, because revolutions are destabilizing and dangerous.

Many bureaucracies have petty authoritarians within them, generating unnecessary rules and procedures simply to express and cement power. Such people produce powerful undercurrents of resentment around them which, if expressed, would limit their expression of pathological power. It is in this manner that the willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society.

We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons the world. It's asking a lot.

We (the sovereign we, the we that has been around since the beginning of life) have lived in a dominance hierarchy for a long, long time. We were struggling for position before we had skin, or hands, or lungs, or bones. There is little more natural than culture. Dominance hierarchies are older than trees.