Quotes About Society

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The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

Capital punishment — the income tax.

You are going to need sales taxes, both Federal and State, income tax, and a lot of other kinds. It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

It wishes to see only "useful things" produced, but it forgets that production of too many useful things produces too large a useless population.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

The greatest task before civilisation at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men; and if civilisation fails at the task, then without doubt it and its makers will go down to a common destruction.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work, or daytime television.

Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at our modern life.

A corpulent man strolled in front of us, sweating and drinking soda from a straw. He was fat enough that each step cost him something.

The summer and the country... have no charms for me. I look forward anxiously to the return of bad weather, coal fires, and good society in a crowded city. I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

We are trapped by our conditioning in a world of steel and plastic, asphalt and concrete. We are removed from the earth and getting farther and farther from it daily.

There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.

Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. It gives meaning and self-esteem to people who are parents. It gives a role model to children.

Algernon: You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that...

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds — sexandviolence — until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

Virtue, as understood by the world, is a constant struggle against the laws of nature.

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.