Quotes About Society

Civilization begins with distillation

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were...

Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.

And that wasn't the first time it ever occurred to me that this world ain't run like it ought to be run a heap of more times than what it is.

It's a curious thing how no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion.

We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it. Because

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior.

Nothing can marry two people closer than a mutual sin in the world's eyes.

But those rich town ladies can change their minds. Poor folks cant.

Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't. Sometimes I think it ain't none of us pure crazy and ain't none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone will always buy him drink or weapons.

It's a curious thing how, no matter what's wrong with you, a man'll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman'll tell you to get married.

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It beats all how some folks think that making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France.

said, —Monasteries are a good thing for America, they help keep the homosexuals off the streets.