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Quotes About Society

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Politics has become entertainment.
~ Joe Eszterhas
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
~ Jay-Z
Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.
~ Jane Byrne
The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession
~ Henry Adams
We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.
~ Marilyn Manson
That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.
~ Rocco Buttiglione
They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.
~ Randy Travis
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
~ Aldous Huxley
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.
~ Ehud Barak
Politics and life go hand in hand.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
~ Dana Carvey
[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.
~ Isabel Wilkerson
It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
~ Will Rogers
What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?
~ Richard M. Nixon
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
~ William Randolph Hearst
He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.
~ Samuel Johnson
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
~ Pat Oliphant
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
~ Thomas Carlyle