Quotes About Society

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

the more of us there are, the more distant from each other we become. We're practically livin' on top of each other but we're further away from each other in every other way than we've ever been before.

We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they're criminals. If they weren't criminals, they'd be doing something else to screw up people's lives, like running elections in Florida

which was mainly the criminals, the

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

twenty-three years of RFRAs to produce anarchy,

As for my being a horror writer, I actually think horror is a very conservative genre. The horror comes when you do something wrong--when you challenge religion or society or nature--and then you must pay. I personally consider myself a radical, but I publish conservative material. That's quite a paradox.

There aren't many now who leave from the same world they were born into. Not here, not anywhere on earth as far as I can tell or know; the simplest and most unchanging of human societies have been shattered in the last hundred years, people flung into centrifuges of change and loss, that there comes to be nothing at last to say good-bye to. I was leaving the world, but it was not my world I was leaving

Men are men, but Man is a woman. —Chesterton

Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.

John defined a society as "a company of men having the form and seeking the power of godliness, united in order to pray together, to receive the word of exhortation, and to watch over one another in love, that they may help each other work out their salvation.

Buddha said that if you want to eradicate crime, the economic conditions of the people have to be improved.

Society makes. Then society rewards and punishes her handiwork.

Puritans don't laugh—except at the sight of a burning witch.

A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.

The remarkable thing about the Diversity cult is that all the circumstances of the actual human world refute its tenets, wherever we look. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that there has never been an ideology so heartily and jealously embraced by all the main institutions of a society, that was at the same time so obviously at odds with the evidence of our senses. It is as if the entire Western world had committed itself to the belief that human beings can fly by flapping their arms.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.

Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.