Quotes About Society

The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

War is the health of the state.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.