Quotes About Society

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.

Instead of a woman who is starving herself to be a size 0, give me a healthy woman who is a size 8 or 10 any day.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.