Quotes About Society

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Women lie about their age men lie about their income.

L.A. was the John Wayne Gacy of cities, smothering its children with a toxic beach towel of poisoned air, mindless growth, and bad values.

Chick's entrance into Ivy University Law School constituted an important step forward in his social and professional career. There was still a hard struggle ahead of him. The next few years would be decisive in determining his position in society. Against that background we can understand what the Italian Community Club meant to Chick Morelli.

Well, we've only had a certain number of executions in the last few years- whatever it was- and two of them were for the personal convenience of Truman Capote.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

But there are certain disadvantages that may seem the necessary result of democratical equality. In political society it is reasonable to suppose that the wise will be outnumbered by the unwise, and it will be inferred 'that the welfare of the whole will therefore be at the mercy of ignorance and folly.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

People don't help much.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The

These classes are sometimes discontented, and sometimes not. Sometimes they do not know that anything is amiss with them until the "friends of humanity" come to them with offers of aid. Sometimes

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It

We cannot now stir a step in our life without capital. We cannot build a school, a hospital, a church, or employ a missionary society, without capital, any more than we could build a palace or a factory without capital. We

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That

A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On