Quotes About Society

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions...

Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement park that is now universal, the preponderance of the power is not with them.

You don't want to be a pauper's wife, though it is all right to be a pauper's girlfriend, especially when you are able, with the pauper's encouragement, to fuck everybody else on the side.

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wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.

The American daydream, what made Us great: make a concession, take a stand.

Civilwarland in Bad Decline

They" are violent. "They" are dangerous. And "we" are innocent.

No one is more empowered by free speech than the historically marginalized and dispossessed. I'll repeat Frederick Douglass's declaration from 1860: free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." He argued that "slavery cannot tolerate free speech" and that "five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South.

As Frederick Douglass wrote in 1860, free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." Free speech, "of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power."4

But an old friend once told me that society is like a spear point—wide at the base, pointed at the tip. Democrats believe you can reshape it, removing the point. But as if by magic, it will grow again. There will always be kings, Thetis, and if not kings, then dictators. It is the nature of man to strive to rise above others, to impose his will on all.

Politics is people-and people aren't logical. I prefer logic. It's simpler.

the proper study of humanity is humanity itself. History is not just old news. It's people.

Lots of people still wore pants and jumpsuits and worksuits of all kinds, but the longshirt is a permanent part of Hella's culture.

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

There are three kinds of people in this modern world; gamer boy eunuchs, cell phone nymphos and book readers. The most valuable are the very vulnerable book readers.

A ditch-pig culture begets a shit-house body politic.

In early Greek society, particularly in Athens, democracy meant the equivalent of a permanent town meeting—all decisions of consequence were made in public assembly. As many professional service firms have rediscovered, this view of democracy tends to result in much wasting of time, slowness of response, and extreme conservatism in action.

In American history, racism has not been a constant but a variable which came, went and came again.

If slavery was not quite what Virginians really wanted, it carried them closer to their conservative utopia than any alternative which lay within reach.

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.