Quotes About Society

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.