Quotes About Society

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.