Quotes About Society

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

I just want to know who made the rule that you had to stop having fun once you got married.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

I can remember when the air was clean and the sex was dirty." -George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

When you stress individualism, as this country does; materialism, as this country does; personal weaponry, as this country does; and racial hatred, which is part of our heritage as white Europeans; and then you add the volatile ingredient of "nothing".

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Some years ago a psychiatrist had told me that finding out things other people didn't want known was my way of trying to stay even with a society filled with people bigger than I was. The remark had been meant to startle, to provoke insight, and eventually to alter my behavior. Instead, I'd simply found that I thoroughly agreed with him and had gone out after a private investigator's license. [Dr. Robert Frederickson AKA Mongo]

God bless… Chocolate City… and its vanilla suburbs.

Google sought to gauge what people were thinking, and became what people were thinking.

Discipleship, therefore, must necessarily be an uncomfortable process of reorientation and of abandonment of the self-centered values of human society in favor of the divine economy, in which "Many who are first will be last, and the last first" (10:31).

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.