Quotes About Society

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

Such is Life [Executed by hanging.]

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.