Quotes About Society

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Old age is a woman's hell.

The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you've probably already done something very, very wrong.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.