Quotes About Society

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"?

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

The best time to have a baby is when you're a black teenager.

Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.