Quotes About Society

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.

The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

Good grief. If we can't laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. Like it or not, this is our culture, and we should embrace and celebrate it, even while we strive to refine and shape it.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

and yes, the rich are never crazy, they're eccentric),

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

In a dynamic democratic society it is indeed difficult to keep in harness the forces of competition.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

2009 the International Society for Human Rights estimated

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes