Quotes About Society

Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty?

There's no free lunch . . . unless you're an illegal alien.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Jeigu žmogus nekvestionuoja savo visuomen?s dogm? ir stereotip?, savo visuomen?s prietar? ir ?pro?i?, jis n?ra joks intelektualas. Jis gali b?ti krepšinio sirgalius.

Communism rots the body, Capitalism rots the soul.

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.

Let's not forget that the ultimate goal of Medicare must be to keep people well rather than just patching them up when they get sick.

Guns aren't evil people are evil. Once we get rid of evil we can get rid of guns.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we?

You can sell a woman? In cities, it's done all the time, all the time. It's like selling meat.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The basic problem is that most Western countries have privatised the next generation. Having children tends to be regarded as a personal choice rather than a social good.

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

The only difference between compassionate conservatism and conservatism is that under compassionate conservatism they tell you they're not going to help you but they're really sorry about it.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.