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Quotes About Society

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.
~ Camille Paglia
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
~ Voltaire
We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.
~ Pankaj Mishra
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
~ Khalil
It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.
~ Mandy Patinkin
What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?
~ William S. Lind
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
~ George Will
Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.
~ John Dewey
I think politics come out of psychology.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
~ Kingsley Amis
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
~ Daniel Guérin, Anarchism
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
~ Terence McKenna
The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
~ James Cook
Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.
~ Dennis Miller
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.
~ Robert Gilpin
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
~ L. Neil Smith
Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.
~ Ira Forman
Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.
~ Rahul Gandhi
There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.
~ Pat Buchanan
Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.
~ Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.
~ Conan O'Brien
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
~ Steve Earle