Quotes About Society

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation's general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by taking from another.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

To charakterystyczna cecha cywilizacji: niechciane,niezamawiane marzenia

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.

There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.

The thing about Americans," she said, "is that you're very concerned about everything all the time.

His point: you don't have to travel the world to see the ways we mistreat one another; it's as close as the street outside our windows.