Quotes About Society

I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

is there any wonder why the world is where it's at now? just notice the creature sitting near you in a movie house or standing ahead of you in a supermarket line. or giving a State of the Union Address. that the gods have let us go on this long this badly.

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they made all the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. but they'll arrest you for swallowing a tablet.

Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what.…

I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them.

the worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. I knew that I wasn't entirely sane. I still knew, as I had as a child, that there was something strange about myself. I felt as if I were destined to be a murderer, a bank robber, a saint, a rapist, a monk, a hermit.

Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier -- it didn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as the next man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.

Living was easy - all you had to do was let go. And have a little money. Let the other men fight the wars, let the other men go to jail.

Instead I learned that the poor usually stay poor. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing.

The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes...

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid.

She says Thomas drank himself to death because he felt his talent was waning. Bullshit. Thomas drank himself to death for the same reason that I do: he loved his drink, it lifted him where he belonged, where we all belong, where we all should be if the stream of people weren't such asses and didn't believe in homes and new cars and all that junk.

La inmensa mayoría de la gente estaba loca. Y los que no estaban locos estaban furiosos. Y los que no estaban locos ni furiosos eran idiotas. No tenía escapatoria.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.

Fast jeder kommt als Genie auf die Welt und wird als Idiot begraben.

What's the sin in being poor?

born into this into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die