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Quotes About Society

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
~ Jacque Fresco
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
~ Ira Gershwin
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
~ Tao Lin
Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.
~ Unknown
Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.
~ Haruki Murakami
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
~ Chelsea Handler
Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.
~ David Riesman
In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.
~ will.i.am
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?
~ Sybille Bedford
The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
~ J. G. Ballard
The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.
~ Susan Faludi
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
~ John Maynard Keynes
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.
~ Joss Whedon
I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.
~ Junot Diaz
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.
~ Ayn Rand
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
~ Mel Martinez
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.
~ Seth Shostak
In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.
~ Bhagat Singh
We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
~ Julia Butterfly Hill
Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
~ Ibn Khaldun
The goal of socialism is communism.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
~ Andrew Johnson