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Quotes About Society

Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don't have … to prove the love they think they have.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
~ Roger Starr
But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.
~ Bruce Sterling, Distraction
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?
~ Sunday Adelaja
Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Some people make enough, some people don't, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.
~ Janene Murphy
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.
~ Peter De Vries
Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.
~ Anonymous
The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
~ Washington Irving
Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
~ Robert J. Shiller
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".
~ Alan Turing
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
~ P. C. Cast
People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.
~ Roy Hattersley
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!
~ Marie Corelli
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.
~ Gustave Le Bon
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai