Quotes About Society

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

A creature designed to look before and after finds that to do the latter has gone out of fashion and that to do the former is becoming impossible.

There was a stubborn strain of authoritarianism in More that embarrasses some of his modern admirers. Having never revolted against his own father, he could be merciless to those who dared to rebel against the surrogate fathers that every society raises as a standard of order in the world.

I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.

What might have developed into it great controversy in England over the duty to retreat failed to occur in the absence of conditions like those of America where it turbulent new society made the issue an important one.-

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)

the twentieth century.

Whoever imagined that ours was a government of laws and not men

Hell, with money you can even get away with being liberal. But if you're poor and liberal, people just think you're peculiar. Oh, they'll never be sure whether you're a liberal because you're poor or poor because you're a liberal, but they're damn sure it's one or the other.

The notion that James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights so that racists and sociopaths and madmen could slaughter innocent men, women, and children with assault weapons or handguns is one of the most contemptible notions that an irresponsible minority has ever crammed down the throats of its potential victims.

I don't believe society has ever grown more tolerant. It just changes targets.

I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

Of course, the lower classes do not acquiesce peaceably to their exploitation; they resist, although for as long as there is private property they merely succeed in replacing one form of exploitation with another. For this reason, in the words of the Communist Manifesto, so far all the history of societies has been the history of class struggles.

Chin now joined chai (tea) and shchi (cabbage soup) to form a triad around which revolved a great deal of Russian life.

sociosexual propagation misfits.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool.

Estelle Ishigo

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

The FHA was particularly concerned with preventing school desegregation. Its manual warned that if children "are compelled to attend school where the majority or a considerable number of the pupils represent a far lower level of society or an incompatible racial element, the neighborhood under consideration will prove far less stable and desirable than if this condition did not exist," and mortgage lending in such neighborhoods would be risky.

If you try to force the mingling of people who are not yet ready to mingle, and don't want to mingle, development cannot succeed economically.