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Quotes About Society

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Aquarians are normal. The rest of the world is weird.
~ Jim Davis
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
~ George A. Romero
How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?
~ Author Unknown
Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...
~ Winston Churchill
Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
~ Golda Meir, 1972
...love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea.
~ Henry Fielding
I'm not a recluse — I'm just playing hard-to-get with society.
~ Author unknown #infj
i vomit confusion & butterflies i sweat fear and i bleed dread i fall deaf from society's lies i gag on metallic tastes of pain i run from the reek of regret i save my minutes & lose my hours i dance on the minefield of mind i freeze my worries for later...
~ Terri Guillemets
In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.
~ Author unknown, c. 1964
If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
~ Author Unknown
The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
~ Russian proverb
Morning walks — rich man walks to digest food a poor to earn.
~ Kiran Bantawa, "Morning Walks"
In the nineteenth century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
~ Author unknown, c. 1930s
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962
After seeing how some people wear masks, we now know why contraception fails.
~ Internet meme, 2020
Coughing is the new farting.
~ Internet meme, March 2020
I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
~ Ronald Reagan, 1986
Sexism is a social disease.
~ Author Unknown
Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love is abortion.
~ Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
~ H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
~ H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
~ H. L. Mencken