Quotes About Society

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.