Quotes About Society

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

You could perfectly well have a machine whose function is to produce things that are themselves functionless. In a consumer society you might have quite a lot of these.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife, by Walker Evans (version published in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men). From a print in a private collection, trimmed under Evans's direction and signed by him in 1971.

The rule of law is the essence of freedom.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

Elaine: Ugh, I hate people. Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, 'I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable.

Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe.

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Socialisté se hrubÄ› mýlí, když v??í, že emoce a postoje typické pro malé primitivní skupiny (založené na principech solidarity, altruismu a loajality) mohou dosta?ovat k zachování rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢eného Ã…â"¢ádu spole?enské kooperace tvoÃ…â"¢ícího moderní spole?nost.

Éste libro por consiguiente nace como primera opción en el mundo de la virtualidad para la sociedad de la información y la comunicación y seguramente no perderá su carácter virtual aunque se impriman algunos o muchos ejemplares en papel.

in the future, you might not want to wear so much makeup. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention." Maureen's shoulders tightened. "Why don't you tell them to stop looking instead of us to stop shining?

As far as she could tell, men didn't have close friendships, not like women did, but they still had that human need for connection. Every movie and TV show and magazine article told them it was their job to go out and grab what they wanted at the same time it told them that women were theirs for the taking.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

There is a feeling that we are things in common not alone. That I am myself in terms of you, and you you in terms of others. Together we make a world and go on in this sea of days and months. In this picture no one is their own--everyone is everyone else; our bodies are the possession of our society. We might own things but never ourselves. Yet I think there is a different duty.

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.