Quotes About Society

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

Humanity is a deceptive noun that suggests our best qualities as a species, though it often masks prejudice and inequity.

Gummy was beaten up, strangled, shot and thrown on an ant hill. That's not the action of a lone killer; that's murder by committee. Who else round here has that kind of muscle? The Colonial Dames of America?

The meaning of man's life, as we have seen, is not measured by what he has, but by what he is. No matter how many possessions we have amassed, how much wealth we have accrued, how respected and secure our position is in society, how numerous the pieces of information we have accumulated, in moments of lucidity we may still abruptly perceive the dreadful futility of it all, the overwhelming emptiness and pointlessness of such a life.

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans . Noisemaking man.

Caroline, furthermore, was wan, pale, and dreamily beautiful, an exquisite creature who wept bitterly when she was told that families "of wretched poor" lived south of Canal Street, which was why her coachman would not drive her there.

Joseph's gift to Babet was considered one of the decorative "musts" of the day—a gold-plated rolling pin, designed to show that its owner "no longer made her own bread, but was financially able to endure the strain of purchasing ready-made loaves at the grocer's.

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

It was Voltaire who said that 'in a government, you need both shepherds and butchers.' The problem in France was that the butchers kept killing the shepherds, while the sheep turned cannibal.

Someone who would tax them half to death but who might just keep them alive long enough to pay the taxes – a lot like modern governments, in fact.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.