Quotes About Society

Americans love to read about violence.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

Love is just an institution.

Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Money buys everything, even true love.

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

Our epoch does not love itself.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.