Quotes About Society

Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.