Quotes About Society

I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Could a father not marry his son?

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.