Quotes About Society

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

I don't have any experience with," she faltered, "children like Lily." "Most people don't. It's the demand for perfection in our society and the definition of that perfection that blocks out all other possibilities.

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man!

This is when Money will be dethroned! Only when there will not be many people left, when most of them will save themselves through suicide ad those who remained did it for the spiritual, sacerdotal society of the Sacred Self, for the society in which their life will consist of finding the Self Balance!

It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't.

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

The first thing we do, let's kill all lawyers.

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

The motive power of democracy is love

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy, fat women.

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Love is so much better when you're not married.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.