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Quotes About Society

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.
~ Jeyn Roberts, Dark Inside
The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become
~ Anonymous
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
~ George Carlin
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
~ Dick Cavett
Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
~ Bo Burnham
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.
~ Dave Attell
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society…unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.
~ Tina Fey
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
~ Gail Carriger, Soulless
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
~ Oscar Wilde
I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
~ Philip Roth
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
~ Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!
~ Inio Asano, Solanin
Thirty millions, mostly fools.
~ Thomas Carlyle
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
~ Harry Mulisch, Siegfried
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is most afraid of being raped?
~ Natasha Leggero
Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
~ Eric Hoffer
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
~ Allen Tucker
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
~ Mark Twain