Quotes About Society

A careful regulation of the economic impulses of society was considered as essential to man's spiritual welfare as it was to his material well-being. There was a righteous price in commerce, based on considerations of morality, as well as an economic price, reflecting the laws of supply and demand.

Elizabeth saw that in politics, problems are rarely solved; they are only replaced by other, more pressing ones.

Growing up in this town, I had long ago learned that the savagery of a man named Mohammed was rarely questioned, but his humanity always had to be proven.

While it has wonderful appeal, decentralization turns out to be a very slippery concept. How can it have any importance in a society thoroughly enmeshed in centralized patterns?

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

Women can be wives and mothers but they can never be people.

In many ways the greatest the world had ever known though there was a prohibition against saying so in polite political society. In any case, it so far exceeded the sort of minor realm ruled by the Borgias, the meager reach of the Medici, the influence of any Italian city-state, that any such comparison was like comparing an elephant to an ant. It could only be compared, de facto, no matter what political-speak required people to say, to Rome when Rome was the very definition of empire.

He had made brilliant and devastating use of innuendo, half truth, and political distortion to exploit the malignancies of American society, especially racism.4Racism was always effective, but it was dangerous to employ and required expert handling. It was not excessively egotistical for the dying man to feel that it was he himself who had made George Bush president in 1988.

We have the ultimate in freedom – we have absolutely no responsibilities! – and we're abusing it.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae

But then July accepted it and never scolded back, so perhaps that was the way of the world: women scolded, and men kept quiet and stayed out of the way as much as possible.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it.

What we done wrong the first time was doing it honest. I'm through with honest. It's every man for himself in this country, and that's the way I like it. There ain't much law and mostly it can be outrun.

When folks get rich all of a sudden it makes them feel sort of guilty to be around folks who've stayed poor.

She may know what I am, though, Lorena said. Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic, Tasmin declared. Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes. Tasmin Berrybender

A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?

Heat is produced as a waste product of civilization. I

All were looking for enclaves of civilization. None had thought to build his own.

Plenty of people on the street but all glued to their phones. Everyone was perpetually connected, but to what? She

It was the sort of corruption Alex expected to hear about happening south of the border, not in her own backyard.