Quotes About Society

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work.

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind...

I love humanity but I hate people.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

GENNARO …«Chi ha voluto 'a guerra?» «Il popolo» – diceno 'e prufessure. «Ma chi l'ha dichiarata?» «'E prufessure» – dice 'o popolo. Si 'a guerra se perde l'ha perduta 'o popolo; e si se vince, l'hanno vinciuta 'e prufessure.»

Necesitamos, por ello, una persona conocedora de los ambientes menos gratos de nuestra sociedad, cuyo nombre pueda ensuciarse sin perjuicio de nadie, capaz de realizar por nosotros el trabajo y de la que, llegado el momento, podamos desembarazarnos sin empacho.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power or means to coerce others.

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

The tragedy of modern war is not so much that the young men die but that they die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

Culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life.

When life is cheap death is rich.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.