Quotes About Society

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude," George Orwell argued in his essay "Why I Write,

A psychologist recently wrote that "aesthetics have replaced ethics, so that stealing is no longer immoral, but being ugly and fat is." I'm drawn to people still willing to work against this frightening irony.

How come all lunatics and murderers are religious these days?

One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get away with it.

Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it. Is that what happened here?

The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.

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People want to fit in and do well, and so they do indescribably stupid things.

Who knows, perhaps the will to please leads people to crime as often as evil or greed does. People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things

People want to fit in and do well, and they do indescribably stupid things because of it.

With a gang of sharp lawyers you can safely steal whatever you like. Lawyers are the hit men of our times.

Avoca?ii sunt asasinii pl?ti?i ai zilelor noastre.

De ce sunt oare to?i nebunii ?i criminalii atât de religio?i în ziua de azi?

Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control.

What's wrong with Barbara Kingsolver?" Eva asked. "She is the embodiment of liberal piety at its most middlebrow and tendentious. Her novels are the beef ribs of fiction.

Dorothy Parker who wrote witty stories, did not foresee that spectacles would be- come fashion accessories. "Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses." And today, in Washington Square Park I thought of her, Miss Parker, and what she might say assessing the spectacles of our day: "Even the nicest lasses Have tattoos on their asses.

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.

The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.

Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

The evidence I have found points in one direction, and that is the integration of hubrids into human society for an eventual takeover. I have found no evidence to refute this.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.