Quotes About Society

As with most of the future worlds in the science fiction, you are not talking about the future. You are talking about the present. You are using the future as a way of giving a bit of room to move.

Maybe the world has run out of room for monsters... or maybe... they're just getting harder to recognize.

Children starve while boots costing many thousands of dollars leave their mark upon the surface of the moon. We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

There's sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime, and at least all the trains run on time but they don't go anywhere.

Until then, we're society's only protection. We keep it up long as we have to. Protection? Who are we protecting them from?

Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the

It's not God that kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.

Like it or not, horror is part of our media, part of our culture, part of our life.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout save us!... ...and I'll look down and whisper no.

The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people that can be just

The Judge does not make the Law. It is the People that make the Law. Therefore if a Law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the Law, that is justice, even if it is not just. It is the duty of a Judge to do justice, but it is only the People who can be just.

There are many sides to this difficult problem. And people persist in discussing soil-erosion, and tribal decay, and lack of schools, and crime, as though they were all parts of the matter. If you think long enough about it, you will be brought to consider republics, and bilingualism, and immigration, and Palestine, and God knows what. So in a way it is best not to think about it at all.

At bottom, though, Brown helped maintain a stable society by moving it forward, far less than civil rights advocates had hoped but far more than opponents felt was needed or necessary.

Given racism's critical role in providing an outlet for white frustrations caused by economic exploitation and political manipulation, one wonders whether American society could survive as we know it if large numbers of whites ever realized what racism costs them and decided to do something about it.

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years." The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

Peeps stay solid and protect yourself and your family by any means necessary, there's shady people out here and a rotten Society, this world and life we live there will always be some heartbreaking things that you will see in the future that's going to make you lose control of your emotions and break down and cry, keep your head up and don't go off your rocker. -MillYentei _The Gorilla Roar!

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. The