Quotes About Society

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.

It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

I never thought I was a bad person. I just thought I was the one good person living in a world of bad people.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.