Quotes About Society

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

There was all the world and his wife.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Youth has become a class.

America 2020 is a bad dream — with woke citizens and an asleep government

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Iz iskustva je znao kako štetni, i po društvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ograni?enosti neograni?eno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u ta?nost svakog svog suda i zaklju?ka.

Ako ho?eš da znaš kakva je neka država i njena uprava, i kakva im je budu?nost, gledaj samo da saznaš koliko u toj zemlji ima ?estitih i nevinih ljudi po zatvorima, a koliko zlikovaca i prestupnika na slobodi. To ?e ti najbolje kazati.

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Each of them had personal, real or imagined, but deep reasons for dissatisfaction with life. Furthermore they had one great reason in common; both felt themselves to be unhappy and like outcasts in this town and this society of officers, for the most part frivolous and empty-headed. So they clung to one another feverishly like two survivors of a shipwreck.

It is only as a unity in diversity that the Christian community will become an inviting community in a society which is otherwise pretty uniform. Creation is motley and diverse, and the new creation even more so.

In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.

Get out of the lab occasionally, Stiles. Why? There are people out there. Nothing fucks things up faster than people.

Are you gonna arrest a robber? Know any? My friend Everet stoled a candy bar from the store, but his ma found out and made him go pay for it out of his 'lowance, and he couldn't have candy or nothing for a whole month. You could arrest him. He's over there. He pointed, cheerfully ratting out his pal. It sounds like he's paid his debt to society.

If men had to wear heels, they'd be outlawed across the land.

Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk. What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad, Eve decided.

Violence is as American as cherry pie.   —RAP (HUBERT GEROLD) BROWN

life used to be simple." "Mmm." "It did. Because it didn't have all these people in it." "If

Stuff it, Jerry. This isn't just police business. It's humanity's business. Humanity, Jerry!

was, Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People. And it's true enough. But a gun gives them a hell of a lot of help.