Quotes About Society

You'll know you're among the people of your culture if the food is all owned, if it's all under lock and key." "Hmm

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

reversing millions of years of human development by devouring all cultures on this planet and turning them into a single culture, our own.

I can confidently predict that if the world is saved, it will not be because some old minds came up with some new programs. Programs never stop the things they're launched to stop. No program has ever stopped poverty, drug abuse, or crime, and no program ever will stop them. And no program will ever stop us from devastating the world.

Every year, without fail, we outlaw more things, catch more people doing them, and put more of them in jail. The outlawed behavior never goes away, because, directly or indirectly, it's supported by the strong, invisible, unrelenting force called vision. This explains why police officers are much more likely to take up crime than criminals are to take up law enforcement. It's called 'going with the flow.

I'm saying that the price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

it doesn't make any difference. Whether we're being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.

The evolution of society is substantially a process of mental adaptation on the part of individuals under the stress of circumstances which will no longer tolerate habits of thought formed under and conforming to a different set of circumstances in the past.

Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?

"It's Friday… any plan of being a productive member of society is officially thrown out the window."

Long time ago I used to have a life, until someone told me to create a Facebook account.

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Violent crime is a solved problem – all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

All my friends are getting married. I guess I'm just at that age where people give up.

The only mistake for which people are congratulated is marriage.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.