Quotes About Society

Growth is a funny sort of concept. For example, our GNP increases every time we build a prison. Well, okay, it's growth in a sense.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

There's no right or wrong when one chooses to be happy. It's just a battle between one's own happiness and the judgment of others.

Don't be someone you're not for society. Odds are, if people like you as much as they claim, then they'll like you when you're you. And that's the best person you can be. If they don't like you, than oh well, at least you like yourself.

Maybe we should all stop looking for society to give us permission to be ourselves.

They tell you to be yourself and then judge you for it.

Society is funny. They ask you to be yourself and yet they judge you.

You can't be yourself in this world without being labeled.

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on.

Society will never change by its self... only you can help change it.

This conflict between self and society is a perpetual battle that continues until one side gives in. And society never does.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

It's hard to grow up in a world where you never feel like you're pretty enough.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

Do not let society dictate your self worth and happiness in life. It must come from within.

I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death