Quotes About Society

The Bible angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power.

Increasingly I'm convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.

Gandhi once said, "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians." Well, I love America. But there are too many hateful Americans.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

The idea of good and evil has thus nothing to do with religion or a mystic conscience. It is a natural need of animal races. And when founders of religions, philosophers, and moralists tell us of divine or metaphysical entities, they are only recasting what each ant, each sparrow practices in its little society. Is this useful to society? Then it is good. Is this hurtful? Then it is bad.

Love and hate; for only those who know how to hate know how to love. We keep this capacity; and as this alone serves to maintain and develop the moral sentiments in every animal society, so much the more will it be enough for the human race. We only ask one thing, to eliminate all that impedes the free development of these two feelings in the present society, all that perverts our judgment: --the State, the church, exploitation; judges, priests, governments, exploiters.

Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

ëCursed is he who lies with any animal.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—