Quotes About Society

Megan, you just single handedly set the women's movement back twenty years

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

W.S. Gilbert, Patience

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans for the restaurants.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with a trust fund.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence