Quotes About Society

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

I think you have an enormous amount of fear and uncertainty in this country. And it's not just from San Bernardino or from Paris.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.