Quotes About Society

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.

I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.