Quotes About Society

Race persists because it continues to be politically useful.

centuries of censorship have left us with very little adequate language with which to discuss the joys and occasional worries of sex.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Technology favors horrible people.

I think a lot of women look at hookers like scabs crossing a picket line. "You can't just go out and sell it! We're holding out for so much more!

the average American child now witnesses more than 10,000 violent crimes (e.g., murder, rape, and assault) each year on television—about 200,000 total violent crimes by the time they are in their teens

Christ has brought it to pass, that those that the Father had given him, should be brought into the household of God; that he, and his Father, and his people should be as it were one society, one family; that the church should be as it were admitted into the society of the blessed Trinity.156

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

I treated women as human beings, which is of course fatal.

Eisenhower started his presidency on this same note, with a plea to avoid what he called the "burden of arms. . . . Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

He believed the best use of human beings was as compost or incubators.

Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

fertility and intelligence, dysgenics, and the Idiocracy effect.

So a patent is a pact between an inventor and society," continued Altschuler. "In exchange for twenty years of exclusive use of an invention, the inventor is required to disclose the invention publicly, in writing. In enough detail so that others can duplicate it. And build upon it. You can still choose to keep an invention a trade secret, of course, but if you do, you don't get protection. You basically take your chances that competitors won't learn your secret.

Truth and reality had come to mean very little when compared to political correctness and political expediency.

A narrator pointed out that the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

Margaret Thatcher: 'Socialism is great—but eventually you run out of other people's money.

The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy. The movie took place many generations in the future, after which this reverse evolution had run its inevitable course, resulting in a society largely composed of morons.

Computers, algorithms, the Internet—they're not just the biggest component of our lives and economy. They've become our lives and economy.

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." —Aesop "Any

We've conditioned the public to believe women are only making a fraction of what men make for so long now, they'll believe the lie before they believe the correction. This claim has been around for so long it's created its own fucking reality.

In the West, the phone had become a drug even more addictive than opioids. In a culture becoming ever more secular,