Quotes About Society

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.