Quotes About Society

The rich sought to conquer one another on battlefields of architectural grandeur. Society fought wars in ballrooms and twinkling parlors, wielding the most haute of designers and decor as their weapons of choice, Italian marble beneath their feet.

Women were not, no matter their circumstances, considered heads of household.

an Orwellian backdrop for a Rockwellian world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that 'the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions

the strange propriety that puts the Japanese among the earth's most civilized degenerates

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

We didn't create society for men, we created it to stop men.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow

We are living in the era of the violent do-gooder.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Americans who do not see themselves as victims — of an 'unfair' or 'racist' or 'misogynist' society — are more likely to vote Republican. On the other hand, Americans who see themselves as victims of American society are likely to vote Democrat. Therefore, the Democratic Party and its supportive media cultivate victimhood among almost all Americans who are not white and male.

Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children's IQs than their children's characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.