Quotes About Society

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

History is a record of human nature in action.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

My dream is to save women from nature.

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

A society needs to know when to forgive, but it also needs to know when to punish.

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

As I said before, [patriotism] is distinct from acting to benefit the government - a distinction that's increasingly lost today.