Quotes About Society

What the hell is wrong with people?

what's worse, if you're expected not to show your feelings, or if you're expected to show them so they can be disregarded?

Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort.

Now, either nobody knows or nobody cares. Or maybe they just don't pay attention. They are too busy looking at their cellular phones.

In our fast-moving, noise-cluttered society, children are seldom given time to wonder and may be deprived of God's deep truths as we try to keep them entertained. Children need a place where they have time to wonder about the mystery of the gospel.

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.

Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.

Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.

Though any species on any dumb gobworld may develop sentience (the poor bastards), no government ever does'?

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I

They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.

and tourists who know in their hearts that it's not wrong to get so phenomenally plastered that you punch a police horse because everyone knows horses vote Tory,

all witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.

Lawlessness doesn't mean there's no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.

Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.

I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.

What is the purpose of a Fairyland if everything lovely is outlawed, just like in the real world?

we are all the shunned masses, part of the bands of outcasts of a society that worships self-control and despises addiction as a moral failing.

Women are programmed to think they're the only screw-up in the universe and men are programmed to think they're the smartest creatures in the universe.