Quotes About Society

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

Perhaps that was what the war was really about. Twas an entire nation of runaways, America in 1861, and your place in society depended on what you had run from and when. Perhaps General McClellan was right that the war was not really about slavery. Perhaps it was a struggle between the dreams of men who would run no more.

There can be no doubt of this: All America is divided into two classes,- the quality and the equality.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Satire doesn't effect change.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

En lugar del padre nuestro, los ateos del D.F. amanecemos con la retahíla de: sálvame mano de esta pinche cloaca en que me metiste, protégeme de la bola de ojetes que quieren acabar con nosotros, sálvame de la ley y sus guardianes.

Os militares não dão cultura ao povo, porque se o povo tivesse cultura não os aceitaria.

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

Ilumínate más, ciudad maldita. Ilumina tus puertas y ventanas Ilumínate más, luz necesita el partido sin luz de las sotanas.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings

Simply being born female in our society is to grow up being told your worth as a person is tied to how slim and attractive you are. Even for those of us lucky enough to have evolved parents, the message is still driven home by the world at large.

Low-intensity authoritarianism corrodes pluralism; new economic and political elites emerge, and their agendas take precedence over the best interests and the needs of their people.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

In a society that is becoming desensitized, robotic and in some cases debilitatingly prescriptive. Women are faking orgasms more -- maybe to just get it all over with.