Quotes About Society

In France the most often used word is "connerie," which means "bullshit," and in America it's hands-down "awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now.

Because that's really something I can't stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy.

If you see devils, they lock you up, but in America, if you see angels, they put you on morning TV.

Oh, offensive jokes…when, if ever, will your time come around again?

At what point had I realized that class couldn't save you, that addiction or mental illness didn't care whether you'd taken piano lessons or spent a summer in Europe? Which drunk or junkie or unmedicated schizophrenic was I crossing the street to avoid when I put it all together?

A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. 'My bad,' for example, and 'I've got your back' and 'You go, girlfriend.' They're the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.

I wonder whose job it was to assign these sexes in the first place. Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?

Love seemed all the sweeter when it was misunderstood, condemned by the outside world.

The rules were just different back then, especially in regard to corporal punishment. Not only could you hit your own children, but you could also hit other people's.

Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now.

awesome," which has replaced "incredible," "good," and even "just OK." Pretty much everything that isn't terrible is awesome in America now.

He didn't explain how, but then again, no one does. They just say it's your patriotic duty and everyone kind of goes along with it.

Michael is in a group I've been hearing a lot about lately. White men who, following eight years of a black president, feel forgotten.

A lot of our outlawed terms were invented by black people and then picked up by whites, who held on to them way past their expiration date. "My bad," for example, and "I've got your back" and "You go, girlfriend." They're the verbal equivalents of sitcom grandmothers high-fiving one another, and on hearing them, I wince and feel ashamed of my entire race.

Poor mastery of emotions is one of the major causes of obesity in a society where stress is common and food is used abundantly to deal with it. People who have learned to handle stress generally do not have a weight problem. They have learned how to listen to their bodies, identify their feelings, and respond intelligently.

The result was that, throughout the continental provinces of the Empire, a hybrid sub-Roman society continued to propagate Roman and Christian ideas of politics under the rule of Germanic kings;

El mundo de los humanos ha dejado de ser humano... Quizá se ha abusado tanto de los buenos sentimientos que se han acabado, como pasó con el carbón.

The young immigrants in the garment factories, alight with a spirit of progress, impatient with the weight of tradition, hungry for improvement in a new land and a new century, organized themselves to demand a more fair and humane society.

They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.

one of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom,'" Massingill quoted. "'A republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.' I don't remember the source.

There's got to be at least some contact if they aren't going to lose their assets simply because someone dies before she gets around to telling her son or daughter Oh, by the way. We're actually secret agents for the Mesan Alignment. Here's your secret decoder kit. Be ready to be contacted by the Galactic Evil Overlord on Frequency X with orders to betray the society you've been raised all your life to think of as your own.

No one could place two-thirds of a world's population on the Dole and keep them there forever without the entire system crashing 

Doing time in a Disposable Body.