Quotes About Society

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable World.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged

People in magazines are 50% bimbo and 50% pregnant women.

There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: "You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter."

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.

How come I only get booked for MILF scenes now? Whatever. Off to tan and then going to see my girls on the Wicked set.

We are all murderers and prostitutes -- no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities.

A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university.... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.