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Quotes About Society

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
~ Gail Carriger
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.
~ Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble
While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.
~ Unknown
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
~ Honore de Balzac
It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.
~ Dov Davidoff
There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.
~ Frederick Lenz
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.
~ John R. Rice
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
~ J. K. Rowling
America is the best half-educated country in the world.
~ Nicholas M. Butler
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
~ Herbert V. Prochnow
I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
~ Francis Bacon
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
~ Susan Sontag
We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.
~ Damian Green
We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.
~ Ray Bradbury
The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
~ Caitlin Moran
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Reformed rakes often make the best husbands
~ Judith McNaught
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
~ Wole Soyinka
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
~ Theodor Adorno
Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'
~ Kristen Wiig
I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.
~ Marina Abramovic