Quotes About Society

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

It is a good thing to be happy alone. It is better to be happy in company, but good to be happy alone. Men owe me the advantage of their society, but if they deny me that just debt, I will not be unjust to myself, and side with them in bereaving me. I will not be discouraged, lest I be miserable for company. More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

You can't negate the ingrained imagination of a whole culture.

In your country," a young Saudi doctor told him "you protect the rights of the individual at the expense of society." In Saudi Arabia, Seymour Gray concluded, it is the other way around.

and especially in video games. A typical news broadcast

It is in fashion nowadays to go to hell.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Y]ou are a puzzle to me and if I could solve that puzzle I could solve the puzzle of America.

Is there no one in town aware of social injustice and industrial inequality?

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a huge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.