Quotes About Society

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Stalin underlined a passage in his copy of Marx that he kept in his library: "There is only one way to shorten and ease the convulsions of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new: revolutionary terror." Beside it, Stalin wrote: "Terror is the quickest way to the new society.

All warfare has its source in this conflict of wills. Before the satanic will rose up to contradict the divine will, there was no war in the universe. The controversy in the universe began with the rebellion of the archangel against God. That rebellion was the beginning of all the fighting that is now taking place among nations, in society, in the family, and in individuals.

There may be fewer people in the American house of the nineties, but there are a lot more things.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Hayekian democracy serves the function of making a capitalist market society appear to be 'the people's choice' even though it has long been removed from democratic control.

While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

no society is renewed from the top and every society is renewed from the bottom.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.