Quotes About Society

I'm a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellersare despised.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

You must be more committed to the truth of God's word and what is right than the flaws in our society.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

I've often mused over the idea that madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world.

Ladies did not participate in 'situations'.

Basically, we were misfits, we were people who were looking for a tribe—we didn't feel comfortable in society, so we were looking for our own society

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

Punk in small towns in '88, '89 was just too dangerous to the normal way of doing things," Lunsford explains. "We found out how many walls there were in this free society that were blocking self-entertainment.

Israel owed some measure of its success to the Arabs, to their hostility that helped galvanize an otherwise factious society.

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Beau Brummel

The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

They were utopian, which meant they saw imperfection everywhere they looked.

But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.

Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society's institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.