Quotes About Society

We've exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

Why does wealth make dull people so much duller?

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

Adultery and cruelty have well-marked courses of action but what can a man do when his wife wants to appear naked on the stage?

They were the kind of party where the company is never very numerous and the liquor is never very good—parties where, as you drink and talk, you feel a palpable lassitude overtaking any natural social ardor, as if the ties of family, society, school, and place that held the group together were dissolving like the ice in your drink.

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

People in a mass-information society are strangely susceptible. They believe what they read in the papers and then believe that what they have read is their own conclusions. In this manner public support can be generated (at least for a while) in favor of administration policies that are palpably wrong. The 1991 attack on Iraq by Bush the elder's administration is a case in point.

Between Two Ages laid out Brzezinski's vision of what U.S. society would be like. The U.S. he wrote "is now in an information revolution based on amusement focus, spectator spectacles (saturation coverage by television of sporting events), which provide an opiate for an increasingly purposeless mass.

At the name Dekker there occurred that curious moral stiffening, that gathering together of relaxed social awareness, which always happens in England when an upper middle-class person enters the company of a group of lower middle-class persons.

We live in a nation where governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.

Boy flirts a lot? He gets props. Girl flirts a lot? She's a slut. Boy cries over a girl? He's in love. Girl cries over a boy? She's dumb.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

A ugly man with money often has his arm a beautiful lady who is willing to spend it.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Enjoy your birthday cake today since tomorrow we'll return to judging you based on every single morsel you ingest.

The mother who set the standard for family and lead the way becomes a role model for society.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Ain't no gay filter for the cash.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.