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Quotes About Society

Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
~ Bill Hicks
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?
~ Bill Hicks
There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
~ Bill Hicks
I know this is not a very popular idea. You don't hear it too often any more … but it's the truth. I have taken drugs before and … I had a real good time. Sorry. Didn't murder anybody, didn't rape anybody, didn't rob anybody, didn't beat anybody, didn't lose – hmm – one fucking job, laughed my ass off, and went about my day. Sorry. Now, where's my commercial?
~ Bill Hicks
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
~ Bill Hicks
goodness is murdered, mediocrity thrives...
~ Bill Hicks
When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?
~ Bill Hicks
Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
~ Bill James
And then you come to the 1910 to 1912 era, and . . . Jesus H. Christ, what is happening here? Axe murders start appearing like dandelions. Murdering your neighbors with an axe became the nation's fourth-largest sport.
~ Bill James
Culture gives opportunity. It does not take away the free will of the individual. That would be a violation of God's design.
~ Bill Johnson
God is looking for a generation that He can use as builders to bring about His intended purposes for cities and nations. This kind of transformation of society doesn't happen by us being on the outside. It happens from within.
~ Bill Johnson
Instead of shaping culture around us, we are all too often shaped by it.
~ Bill Johnson
The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people, and don't come in clearly enough.
~ Bill Maher
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
~ Bill Maher
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.
~ Bill Maher
Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?
~ Bill Maher
We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
~ Bill McCollum
anything above 1.5°C will see the advent of a world plagued by intense summer heat, extreme drought, devastating floods, reduced crop yields, rapidly melting ice sheets and surging sea levels. A rise of 2°C and above will seriously threaten the stability of global society.
~ Bill McGuire
Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.
~ Bill McIntire
only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others. Only in a culture of hyperindividualism would it occur to you to do what you wanted without reference to anyone else—
~ Bill McKibben
As your society becomes more unequal, you are more likely to be depressed." Humans, he continued, "crave connection—to other people, to meaning, to the natural world. So we have begun to live in ways that don't work for us, and it is causing us deep pain."7 If we wanted to somehow engineer
~ Bill McKibben
I said before that the human game we've been playing has no rules and no end, but it does come with two logical imperatives. The first is to keep it going, and the second is to keep it human.
~ Bill McKibben
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.
~ Bill McKibben
the television culture celebrates incompetence.
~ Bill McKibben