Quotes About Society

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Civilisation and top hats bore me.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.