Quotes About Society

Herb is the healing of a nation. Alcohol is the destruction.

One can say there are only ?must do? and ?must have? for a so-called real woman. But there are many ?free to do, or not to do? for her either. The most are provided by men who are ready to forgive her almost everything for just one charming smile, which is supposed to be saying ?sorry?.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The longer you are single, the more you think that something's wrong with you.

I'm thinking the single life isn't what it used to be!

Being single isnt the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Too many good girls single, too many hoes taken.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

I am merely noting that the creation of native prostitutes to service foreign privates is an inevitable outcome of a war of occupation, one of those nasty little side effects of defending freedom that all the wives, sisters, girlfriends, mothers, pastors, and politicians in Smallville, USA, pretend to ignore behind waxed and buffed walls of teeth as they welcome their soldiers home, ready to treat any unmentionable afflictions with the penicillin of American goodness.

While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them.

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily

As the crapulent major said, A man doesn't need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own.

Despite the chronic shortages of almost every good and commodity, there was no shortage of paper, since everyone in the neighborhood was required to write confessions on a periodic basis. Even

Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

Ever since the first caveman discovered fire and decided that the ones still living in darkness were benighted, it's been civilization against barbarism . . . with every age having its own barbarians. Nothing

Easier to get a gun here than to vote or drive. You

Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity. Not