Quotes About Society

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

Eventually, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

If human society loses the value of justice, compassion, and honesty, the next generation will face greater difficulties and more suffering.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.