Quotes About Society

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

I can't believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.