Quotes About Society

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

Civilization begins with distillation

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.