Quotes About Society

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

The gun is a magic instrument, converting children to numbers.

The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?

Civilization diminishes proportionally to the distance from Paris.

There had never been a time when all the people everywhere lived in peace. No one had ever had a lasting peace without ignoring atrocity or history, which meant it wasn't lasting at all. Which meant we were an irrational species.

I find it obscene that countries have fallen apart and people are now organized on the basis of the order of their molecules and the waves they emit. I

Most people in New York City had started wearing masks, to keep the pollution out, but also to protect privacy.

Windows plastered with advertisements for all the things we were supposed to want that were killing us.

Earth people made him uncomfortable, particularly in groups.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.

Much of our success was due to the much-abused institution of African servitude, for it enabled the white men to go into the army, and leave the cultivation of their fields and the care of their flocks, as well as of their wives and children, to those who, in the language of the Constitution, were "held to service or labor.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

As Schell had taught me, "a con starts when there is something you want and you are blocked from attaining it by certain obstacles. The good con artist elicits the assistance of those who mean to stand in the way of one's attainment by appealing to their vanity, pride, jealousy, ignorance, or fear. One must first throw into a pile the expected rules of engagement, morality, society, and thought, set them on fire, and then proceed. Think big, have confidence.

Everyone should tackle some great project at least once in their life. I devoted most of my life to inventing new kinds of looms. Now it is your turn. You should make an effort to complete something that will benefit society. (Reingold, 1999)

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

Equal citizenship stature for men and women belongs in any fundamental instrument of government. It should be as basic to society as free speech and freedom of religion. And it is stated among basic rights in every post-1950 constitution in the world.

The original Constitution, as amended by the Bill of Rights, includes many themes that would apply to society as it evolves over time, freedom of speech, press, and religion, and due process of law, most notably. And equality imbued the Declaration of Independence although the stain of slavery kept that ideal out of the Constitution until 1868.