Quotes About Society

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.