Quotes About Society

The NRA assholes will tell you that "guns don't kill people, people do." Yeah, Malone thinks, people with guns.

As for corruption, who's more corrupt—the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?

We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.

Well, that's a big chunk of truth, Eddie thinks. The Mexicans have finally found a drug that white trash likes and can afford. And one thing you ain't never gonna run out of is white trash. That stuff makes itself. They get made in the backseats of junk cars, and then they live in them.

You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

America's longest war is the war on drugs.

You live in El Paso, you're a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn't change you. You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

Guns and dope are the soup and sandwich of American crime.

Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas and hidden courtyards, is now known as a slaughter ground. And for what? So North Americans can get high.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

Professor Asshole would never hold a door open, considering it a condescending, paternalistic passive-aggressive gesture perpetuating the male power structure.

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.

When you ask people, "What's America's longest war?" they usually answer "Vietnam" or amend that to "Afghanistan," but it's neither. America's longest war is the war on drugs.

The Great Depression." What better way to control a free society than to take away their ability to buy, save, and grow?

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

Countries once established on Judeo-Christian principles have become overrun by ideologies and organizations that seek to strip society of all that is sacred. Without a major turnaround, civilization itself is going to self-destruct.

Politics has clogged the air of my life.

Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.