Quotes About Society

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.