Quotes About Society

Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.

Unshackled by strict yet arbitrary, misguided norms, outcasts can be, look, act, and associate however they want. And in this ever conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society, the innovation, courage, and differences of the cafeteria fringe are vital to America's culture and progress. Which is why we must celebrate them.

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.

He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

A human being has to look out for other human beings or else there's no civilization.

In 1992, 54% of the British public felt that the Labour Party was "good for one class" rather than for all classes, whereas only 14% held that view in in 1997.

The word discipline has disappeared from our minds, our mouths, our pulpits, and our culture. We hardly know what discipline means in modern American society. And yet, there is no other way to attain godliness; discipline is the path to godliness. JAY ADAMS

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Too often science seems oblivious to the fact that human beings have been interacting with nature over a long period of time ... and that what we mean by nature is, to some extent, a product of that history.

We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.

If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency.

The more output that is produced, the more can be invested to make new capital. This is a reinforcing loop, like the birth loop for a population. The investment fraction is equivalent to the fertility. The greater the fraction of its output a society invests, the faster its capital stock will grow.

I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.

Grammar is politics by other means.

We've got enough folks spouting those words around here. It's to the point now where even if I wanted to get married, I would resist just to keep from running with the herd.

when scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law...

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.