Quotes About Society

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda's these day's? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way. You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can't help but think, You just haven't taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

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

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.