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Quotes About Society

Television is the triumph of machine over people.
~ Fred Allen
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
~ Paul Dickson
People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.
~ Clint Eastwood
I think how tan a person is, is directly proportionate to how dumb they are.
~ Natasha Leggero
Clones are people two.
~ Steven Wright
For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.
~ Camille Henrot
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.
~ Ronald Reagan
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.
~ Kathy Lette, Nip 'N' Tuck
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
~ Martin Freeman
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
~ Chris Rock
Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
~ Chris Rock
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently
~ Sarah MacLean, The Season
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
~ Joan Jett
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
~ William McIlvanney
Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.
~ Chris Rock
Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?
~ Katherine Mansfield
Whenever I'm stuck in traffic, I can't help but wonder, 'Where did the creator of The Jetsons go, and why hasn't he done something about this?'
~ Jimmy Fallon
Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.
~ Marina Abramovic
..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.
~ Mary Matthews, Splendid Summer
I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.
~ Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age, people knowyou're fat and old.
~ Chocolate Waters