Quotes About Society

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race.

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.