Quotes About Society

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

History is past politics and politics present history.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.