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Quotes About Society

Satire today has become a flat 'tyre'.
~ Amit Abraham
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
~ Herbert Hoover
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
~ Peter O'Toole
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .
~ James Henley Thornwell
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
~ Lionel Trilling
I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Men of honor, men of God in a healthy society, stand in defense of justice
~ Sunday Adelaja
It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.
~ Marissa Meyer, Cinder
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
~ Marie Curie
Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away
~ Ramon Magsaysay
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
~ William Ralph Inge
The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
~ Chris Rock
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
~ David Sirota
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
~ William Golding
Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can't do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can't protect themselves.
~ Mark Wahlberg
To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.
~ Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.
~ Edmund Wilson
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
~ Moliere
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
~ George Orwell
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
~ William Wordsworth
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
~ Juan Goytisolo
The great hope of society is in individual character
~ William Ellery Channing