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Quotes About Society

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
~ Howard Mumford Jones
I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.
~ Unknown
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
~ Charles de Montesquieu
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.
~ Moliere
I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are.
~ Unknown
Now is the age of anxiety.
~ Unknown
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.
~ Aristotle
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society.
~ Unknown
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
~ Joseph Priestley
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
~ Karl Marx
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
~ Brigham Young
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
~ Erich Fromm
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.
~ Unknown
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
~ Oscar Wilde
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
~ Albert Einstein
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
~ George Orwell
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.
~ Voltaire
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde
Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
~ Spike Milligan
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
~ Voltaire
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
~ Jeff Marder
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.
~ Billy Crystal