Quotes About Society

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.