Quotes About Society

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

That's what they do to whatever I was - 19 or something. You're the baby hooker. You can ask any woman my age and we've all played baby hookers.

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.