Quotes About Society

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

The rich are different from us.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.