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Quotes About Society

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
~ Gertrude Atherton
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
~ Ralph Steadman
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
~ Tony Blair
We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society.
~ Dalai Lama
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
~ E. M. Forster
Obviously if there are guns on the street there's going to be more violence. That being said, I happen not to trust the government.
~ Slaine
It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?
~ Julia Alvarez
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.
~ Paul Ryan
Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.
~ R. Kelly
How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.
~ Alexander Hamilton
When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.
~ Albert Schweitzer
We don't trust anyone who does anything nice. That's just the sad world we live in.
~ Sandra Bullock
There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.
~ Rush Limbaugh
There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.
~ Christopher Michael Cillizza
There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.
~ Demi Lovato
The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.
~ Hillary Clinton
After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?
~ Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.
~ Rodrigo Duterte
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
~ George Orwell
If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
~ Saadat Hasan Manto
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
~ George Orwell
In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.
~ Louis Althusser
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
~ H. L. Mencken
We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.
~ Nikki Giovanni