Quotes About Society

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Every country has the government it deserves.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Politics is downstream from culture.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

If compassion and mercy are not compatible with politics then something is the matter with politics.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.