Quotes About Society

No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.

Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.

The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.

Our students didn't used to come from such damaged families," Louis mused. "It's true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

American history is the story of one society among many, distinctive in some ways, yet sharing in the common human condition. It comprises one brief, unfinished chapter in the great volume of world history, the cumulative record of what the philosopher Immanuel Kant called "the crooked timber of humanity."

Dissent has been crushed, and freedom is a memory, all in the name of peace and order.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape, may be spreading pestilence and pollution on a global scale, but his violent instincts at least seem to have been triumphantly tamed.

There is no difference, truly, Between a wife of lofty social rank Who treats her body shabbily And a poor wench, other than this: If their behavior's equally amiss The gentle one of highly ranked estate Is still called "lady" in the terms of love And if the other is alone and poor She ends up being called a wench or whore.

prostitutes streamed toward Westminster and, especially, the freewheeling adjacent area of Charing Cross.

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family. — St. Angela Merici

loss of an economic basis is what, above all, fate means today.

Your country is ridden with class prejudices.

The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Psychologisch beschouwd is het juister de verklaring voor het huidige profitariaat en individualisme te zoeken in een maatschappij die mensen opvoedt om steeds hun eigen voordeel na te streven, los van en desnoods ten koste van de ander. 'Je leeft maar één keer.

These days, we forget that fascism was a supposedly progressive ideology that sought to create the perfect society based on the science of the time.

These days, politicians are fodder for stand-up comedians; religion prompts associations with suicide bombers or sexual abuse; and everyone is an artist.