Quotes About Society

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.

I don't want to sound too worthy here, but I want to do something that honestly contributes something positive to society.

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.